| Description |
xiv, 558 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Therapeutic Arguments -- Medical Dialectic: Aristotle on Theory and Practice -- Aristotle on Emotions and Ethical Health -- Epicurean Surgery: Argument and Empty Desire -- Beyond Obsession and Disgust: Lucretius on the Therapy of Love -- Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature -- "By Words, Not Arms": Lucretius on Anger and Aggression -- Stoic Tonics: Philosophy and the Self-Government of the Soul -- Skeptic Purgatives: Disturbance and the Life without Belief -- The Stoics on the Extirpation of the Passions -- Seneca on Anger in Public Life -- Serpents in the Soul: A Reading of Seneca's Medea -- The Therapy of Desire. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-530) and indexes. |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Ancient.
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Emotions (Philosophy) -- History.
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Ethics, Ancient.
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| ISBN |
0691033420: $29.95 |
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