Providence Lost / Genevieve LLOYD.
LLOYD, Genevieve, author.
2009
BD541 -- L56 2008eb
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Title
Providence Lost / Genevieve LLOYD.
Author
LLOYD, Genevieve, author.
ISBN
9780674040311
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040311
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.4159/9780674040311 doi
Call Number
BD541 -- L56 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
214/.8
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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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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