Providence lost /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Euripides, philosopher of the stage
- The world of men and gods
- Agreeing with nature : fate and providence in stoic ethics
- Augustine : divine justice and the "ordering" of evil
- The philosopher and the princess : Descartes and the philosophical life
- Living with necessity : Spinoza and the philosophical life
- Designer worlds
- Providence as progress
- Providence lost.