The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics - Martha Craven Nussbaum - Google Books

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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…