The Cure of Desire: Ethical Theory and Practice in the Hellenistic Period
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Nussbaum has an extremely high intellectual talent for classical studies and a strong ability to grasp classical texts, but her works often become the focus of controversy and even crusade in the academic community. This book is one of her few masterpieces that is widely recognized by the academic community. During the Hellenistic period, Epicureans, Stoics, and skeptical philosophers believed that philosophy was not a rational law that had nothing to do with human emotions, but an art that dealt with daily life problems and discovered the meaning of life. In this context, philosophical topics include: fear of death, love and sex, anger and aggression. For the philosophers of this period, philosophy was like medicine, dedicated to understanding and creating a rich and colorful human life. In this book, Nussbaum shows people the treatment paradigms of philosophers and discusses the views of Aristotle (the target of the attack), Epicureanism, Skepticism, and Stoic philosophers on desire. The main body of the argument is how Hellenistic philosophers can make people's lives healthier and happier by taming desire. She calls the philosophy of these three Hellenistic philosophical schools compassionate medical philosophy. Many discussions in the book are also of great significance to today's society.
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