Providence Lost / / Genevieve LLOYD.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: LLOYD, Genevieve,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674040311; 9783110442205; 9783110459517; 9783110662566
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674040311
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Genevieve LLOYD.

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.