(Pdf Read) The Therapy of Desire

• Paperback
• 576
• The Therapy of Desire
• Martha C. Nussbaum
• English
• 28 July 2020
• 9780691000527

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review The Therapy of Desire 103 Martha C. Nussbaum õ 3 characters characters The Therapy of Desire 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 Her book is about Hellenistic philosophers use of medicine as a metaphor for the practice of philosophy to alleviate suffering As she explains it the purpose of philosophy is to heal diseases diseases caused by false beliefs It is only after we eliminate false beliefs from our minds can we experience a flourishing life She then evaluates the adeuacy of various schools of philosophy from Plato to Aristotle to the Epicureans to the Skeptics to the Stoics through the point of view of a woman an insightful twist A cornucopia of insights with multitudinous applications

review The Therapy of Desire 103 Martha C. Nussbaum õ 3 characters characters The Therapy of Desire And sexuality anger and aggression Like medicine philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the flourishing of human life In this engaging book Martha Nussbaum ex Part 7 StoicismThe very best analysis of ancient Greek philosophy I have encountered The Therapy of Desire is an academic work that is open to the unenlightened reader Martha Nussbaum is exact and thorough depicting Aristotelianism Epicureanism Skepticism and StoicismShe offers us all the keys to try these various frameworks Also her style of writing stays away from philosophical language and postmodern gobbledygook This is really open educationEpicureans Aristotelians and Skeptics were somewhat disposed to change one s wants instead of the world s But the Stoics are enhanced with political speculations The fact is that in Stoicism reflection is political Forget some modern interpretations that say otherwise that it is too often paraphrased as joyless austere and impassive Stoicism will certainly remove us from passive social convictions or rudderless chaos But that stoicism does not euate to lack of joy If anything and as Marta argues it should euate to serene joyThe goal here is to advance our political hypotheses through Hellenistic contemplationsMartha succeeds She calls attention to that philosophy that had the mission of teaching for daily application teaching those to be liable to propose a attractive and progressively empathetic help to others First educate for that purpose Those that have the access to this proactive education and learn it well should be our leaders and intellectuals Those intellecuals who have been taught theory and action must lead and improve the world by helping the less privilegedoppressed Education that respects individual autonomy without neglecting social responsibility Stoicism here is necessarily political and democratic It could be seen as the ancient philosophy of the responsibility of intellectuals On to Stoicism Part 8 William B Irvine

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review The Therapy of Desire 103 Martha C. Nussbaum õ 3 characters characters The Therapy of Desire Amines texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm including Epicurus Lucretius Sextus Empiricus Chrysippus and Seneca and recovers a valuable source for our moral and political thought of tod Nussbaum displays here the practice of philosophy at its very best She is at the same time brilliantly analytical and deeply human She engages with the schools of Hellenistic philosophy in a manner which is forensic and detailed without ever losing sight of the reality and primacy of our human lives Therapy of Desires describes the strengths and shortcomings though of the major schools of Hellenistic philosophy with scholarly insight and in the final instance with deep compassion