
Providence lost
Edición de la obra Providence lost
| Autor | Genevieve Lloyd |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Harvard University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2008 |
| Lugar | Cambridge, Mass |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 369 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780674031531 |
| OCLC | 225874288 |
| LCCN | 2008023693 |
| Número de Cutter | L793p |
"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." --Book Jacket.