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Providence Lost / Genevieve LLOYD.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674031531
  • 9780674040311
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 214/.8
LOC classification:
  • BD541 -- L56 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Euripides, Philosopher of the Stage -- 2. The World of Men and Gods -- 3. Agreeing with Nature Fate and Providence in Stoic Ethics -- 4. Augustine Divine Justice and the "Ordering" of Evil -- 5. The Philosopher and the Princess: Descartes and the Philosophical Life -- 6. Living with Necessity: Spinoza and the Philosophical Life -- 7. Designer Worlds -- 8. Providence as Progress -- 9. Providence Lost -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- Index
Summary: In our ever more secular times-is providence lost? Perhaps, but as Lloyd makes clear, providence still exerts a powerful influence on our thought and in our lives. This book traces a succession of transformations in the concept of providence through the history of Western philosophy.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674040311

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Euripides, Philosopher of the Stage -- 2. The World of Men and Gods -- 3. Agreeing with Nature Fate and Providence in Stoic Ethics -- 4. Augustine Divine Justice and the "Ordering" of Evil -- 5. The Philosopher and the Princess: Descartes and the Philosophical Life -- 6. Living with Necessity: Spinoza and the Philosophical Life -- 7. Designer Worlds -- 8. Providence as Progress -- 9. Providence Lost -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- Index

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In our ever more secular times-is providence lost? Perhaps, but as Lloyd makes clear, providence still exerts a powerful influence on our thought and in our lives. This book traces a succession of transformations in the concept of providence through the history of Western philosophy.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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