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The Therapy of Desire

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Acknowledgments Ch. 1Therapeutic Arguments Ch. 2Medical Dialectic: Aristotle on Theory and Practice Ch. 3Aristotle on Emotions and Ethical Health Ch. 4Epicurean Surgery: Argument and Empty Desire Ch. 5Beyond Obsession and Disgust: Lucretius on the Therapy of Love Ch. 6Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature Ch. 7By Words, Not Arms: Lucretius on Anger and Aggression Ch. 8Skeptic Purgatives: Disturbance and the Life without Belief Ch. 9Stoic Tonics: Philosophy and the Self-Government of the Soul Ch. 10The Stoics on the Extirpation of the Passions Ch. 11Seneca on Anger in Public Life Ch. 12Serpents in the Soul: A Reading of Seneca's Medea Ch. 13The Therapy of Desire List of Philosophers and…

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Keywords
  • Passions
  • Disgust
  • Soul
  • Anger
  • Dialectic
  • Ancient philosophy
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Philosophy
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Peace, Justice and strong institutions
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