Lloyd, Genevieve
Providence Lost

Beginning with early versions of providence in ancient Greek thought, Lloyd follows the concept through its convergence with Christian ideas, to its role in seventeenth-century philosophical accommodations of freedom and necessity. Finally, she shows how providence was subsumed into the eighteenth-century ideas of progress that eventually rendered it philosophically superfluous. Incorporating rich discussions of thinkers from Euripides to Augustine, Descartes and Spinoza to Kant and Hegel, her lucid and elegantly written work clearly and forcefully brings the history of ideas to bear on our present confusion over notions of autonomy, risk, and responsibility. Contents: 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. 369 Seiten, gebunden (Harvard University Press 2008) leichte Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben mit minimaler Randlädierung. Ein Fleck von etwa 1,5 x 1,5 cm auf Seite 131, der auf Seite 132 durchscheint/minor traces of use, slightly rubbed with minimal marginal damage. One leaf with stain, size approximately 1.5 x 1.5 cm, visible on both sides of the leaf