The therapy of desire : theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics /
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous sci...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2009.
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| Edition: | New ed. / |
| Series: | Martin classical lectures.
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