Providence Lost

by: Lloyd, G.

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Providence Lost
Author:Genevieve Lloyd

Summary:To the ancient Greeks, providence was the inherent purpose and rational structure of the world. In Christian thought, it became a benign will "providing" for human well-being. And in our own ever more secular times - is providence lost? Perhaps. but as Genevieve Lloyd makes clear in this illuminating work, providence still exerts a powerful influence on our thought and in our lives; and understanding how can help us clarify the functioning - or, increasingly, the malfunctioning - of concepts of freedom and autonomy that define our modernity. Such an understanding is precisely the goal of this book, which traces a succession of transformations in the concept of providence through the history of Western philosophy.

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

369 pages ; 22 cm

Providence Lost

by: Lloyd, G.

• ISBN-13: 9780674031531 / 978-0-674-03153-1
• ISBN-03: 0674031539 / 0-674-03153-9
• Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008

Price: 29,90 EURO

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