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Providence lost / Genevieve Lloyd.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lloyd, Genevieve.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Providence and government of God.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (381 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-343) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674040311
- 0674040317
- OCLC:
- 503446308
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