The therapy of desire
Book by Martha Nussbaum
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Oct 9, 2026
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
We had, uh, officially, like, an assignment this time, which is crazy.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
I don't know, the whole year, I mean, we're just trying it out, but anyway, uh, as I mentioned last episode and probably the episode before, uh, we have this book by Martha Nussbaum, who when I bring that up to my sister, it's, uh, it's like, "Oh, you got Mrs. Nussbaum's credit card." Do you know that reference?
Jenny HansenHOST
No. I'm embarrassed.
Mary HynesHOST
Oh, I don't.
Mary HynesHOST
I think that's really fascinating.
Jenny HansenHOST
I, I agree with that.
Jenny HansenHOST
She wrote this book many years ago, but the growth and popularity in the manosphere [laughs] around Stoicism is, if you read Nussbaum, even just this introduction, you realize it's a misrepresentation of what are the resources of this kind of Hellenistic practical philosophy, and I'm excited that we're doing this, you know?
Mary HynesHOST
Mm-hmm.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
We had, uh, officially, like, an assignment this time, which is crazy.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
I don't know, the whole year, I mean, we're just trying it out, but anyway, uh, as I mentioned last episode and probably the episode before, uh, we have this book by Martha Nussbaum, who, when I bring that up to my sister, it's, uh, it's like, "Oh, you got Mrs. Nussbaum's credit card." Do you know that reference?
Jenny HansenHOST
No. I'm embarrassed.
Mary HynesHOST
Oh, I don't.
Mary HynesHOST
I think that's really fascinating.
Jenny HansenHOST
I, I agree with that.
Jenny HansenHOST
She wrote this book many years ago, but the growth in popularity in the manosphere [laughs] around Stoicism is, if you read Nussbaum, even just this introduction, you realize it's a misrepresentation of what are the resources of this kind of Hellenistic practical philosophy, and I'm excited that we're doing this, you know?
Mary HynesHOST
Mm-hmm.
Jenny HansenHOST
That's the way to go.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
So our homework was to look at the introduction to Mrs. Nussbaum's The Therapy of Desire, which is about ancient self-help strategies, and we just kind of, you know, this is, uh, it's the introduction.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
It was only, uh, what, 12 pages? Or less than that, you know, because there's always filler at the beginning, so eight pages, nine pages.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
Mary was very attracted to self-help topics sort of naturally throughout this last year, so I thought, like, let's, let's kinda try to make it philosophically respectable.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
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Mark LinsenmayerHOST
Plus, for the first bunch of episodes anyway, we are reading an actual philosophy book, Martha Nussbaum's The Therapy of Desire, about stoicism, skepticism, epicureanism, those ancient practical philosophies that are very popular nowadays.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
They're supposed to help you become a better person.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
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Mark LinsenmayerHOST
So that's guaranteed twice the philosophy representation in the philosophy versus improv equation.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
Plus for the first bunch of episodes anyway, we are reading an actual philosophy book Martha Nussbaum's The Therapy of Desire about Stoicism, Skepticism, Epicureanism, those ancient practical philosophies that are very popular nowadays that are supposed to help you become a better person.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
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