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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Lloyd, Genevieve
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.