Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics

by John Cottingham

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Can philosophy enable us to lead better lives through a systematic understanding of our human nature? John Cottingham's thought-provoking 1998 study examines the contrasting approaches to this problem found in three major phases of Western philosophy. Starting with the attempts of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics and Epicureans to cope with the recalcitrant forces of the passions, he moves on to examine the fascinating and hitherto little-studied moral...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521478901

ISBN13:9780521478908

Release Date:July 1998

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.7"

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