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Table of Contents

Fate, providence and moral responsibility : an introduction / Gerd Van Riel & Pieter d'Hoine
Part 1. Plato and Aristotle
Émergence de la thématique de la providence divine de Diogène d'Apollonie à Platon / Lambros Couloubaritsis
Comment être responsable de son destin? : Platon et le mythe d'Er / Pierre Destrée
Liberté et caractère dans le mythe d'Er / Sylvain Delcomminette
The fate of providence and Plato's world soul in Aristotle / John Dudley
Was Aristotle an ethical determinist? : reflections on his theory of action and voluntariness / Jörn Müller
Part 2. Hellenistic and early imperial philosophy
Presuppositions of moral action in Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias / Frans A.J. de Haas
Plutarch and the Stoic theory of providence / Keimpe Algra
The middle Platonic doctrine of conditional fate / Jan Opsomer
Part 3. Plotinus
The question of evil in the world in Plotinus / Luc Brisson
Plotinus' metaphorical reading of the Timaeus : soul, methematics, providence / Riccardo Chiaradonna
Choice, self-determination and assimilation to God in Plotinus / Alessandro Linguiti
Part 4. The Neoplatonic commentators
Signs and tokens : do the gods of Neoplatonism really care? / John Dillon
A problem concerning providence : Proclus and Plutarch on inherited guilt and postponed punishment / Robbert M. van den Berg
Ascent of the soul and grades of freedom : Neoplatonic theurgy between ritual and philosophy / Christoph Helmig & Antonio L.C. Vargas
A fatal or providential affair? : Socrates and Alcibiades in Proclus' commentary on the Alcibiades I / Danielle A. Layne
Le cycle triadique de la causalité démiurgique : bonté, vouloir, providence : l'interprétation proclienne de Timée 29e1-30c2 / Alain Lernould
Hermias of Alexandria on Socrates' divine sign / Geert Roskam
When should a philosopher consult divination? : Epictetus amd Simplicius on fate and what is up to us / Gary Gabor.
Part 5. Greek Patristics and the Byzantine tradition
Goodness, evil and the free will of man in Gregory of Nyssa / Claudio Moreschini
Édition d'un fragment Contre les astronomes, contenant une contribution à la théorie des quatre humeurs et des tempéraments / Caroline Macé
A late antique debate on matter-evil revisited in 11th-century Byzantium : John Italos and his Quaestio 92 / Michele Trizio
The Metochion, Holy Sepulchre 363 manuscript and an unpublished Byzantine opuscule on predetermination / Peter Van Deun & Erika Gielen
Part 6. The Arabic tradition
La Providence selon le "Livre de la réprimande de l'âme" attribué à Hermès Trismégiste : un document néoplatonicien arabe oublié / Daniel De Smet
What about providence in the best of all possible worlds? : Avicenna and Leibniz / Jules Janssens
Providence in Averroes / Richard Taylor
Part 7. The medieval Latin tradition
Are first movements venial sins? : Augustinian doctrine and Aquinas's reinterpretation / Tianyue Wu
La doctrine aristotélicienne de la providence divine selon Thomas d'Aquin / Valérie Cordonier
Divine government and human freedom / Andreas Speer
Thoms Aquinas on providence, contingency and the usefulness of prayer / Rudi te Velde
Divine predestination, human merit and moral responsibility : the reception of Augustine's doctrine of irresistible grace in Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent and John Duns Scotus / Pasquale Porro
Henry of Ghent and the ethics of intention / Marialucrezia Leone
Henry of Ghent on fatalism and naturalism / Gordon Wilson
Voir la providence : autour du De visione Dei de Nicolas de Cues / Jean-Michel Counet
Fate, providence and predestination in the sapiential project of Denys the Carthusian / Kent Emery, Jr.
Part 8. Early modern thought
Human nature and moral responsibility in the work of Juan Luis Vives / Demmy Verbeke
L'anti-fatalisme de Julius Sirenius / Guy Guldentops
Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) on predestination, providence and free will / Filips Defoort.

Edition Notes

"Many of the contributions collected here were presented at a conference held at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium on 25-27 November, 2010 ..."--Page xiv.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 697-769) and indexes.

28 English, 9 French contributions.

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Leuven
Series
Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1 -- XLIX, Ancient and medieval philosophy -- 49.
Other Titles
Studies in honour of Carlos Steel
Copyright Date
2014

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Dewey Decimal Class
123
Library of Congress
B721 .F335 2014, B721 .F283 2014, B721.F335 2014

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xiv, 785 pages
Number of pages
785

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Open Library
OL31150609M
ISBN 10
9058679705
ISBN 13
9789058679703
LCCN
2014383016
OCLC/WorldCat
874531253

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