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2009-11-07 - The Therapy of Desire - Epicureans and Stoics on the good life

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DATE : Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +1000
Entered in Database : 2009-11-06 14:00:00
length : 12047424
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Can philosophy be practical and compassionate? Can it exist for human beings and not just for its own coldly logical reasons? This was a question asked by the philosophers of the Hellenistic age, that´s the period following Aristotle, who died in 322BC. This week, Martha Nussbaum from the University of Chicago, talks about desire and Hellenistic ethics.

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