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  2. De Providentia - Wikipedia

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    De Providentia (On Providence) is a short essay in the form of a dialogue in six brief sections, written by the Latin philosopher Seneca (died AD 65) in the last years of his life. He chose the dialogue form (as in the well-known Plato 's works) to deal with the problem of the co-existence of the Stoic design of providence with the evil in the ...

  3. Providentia - Wikipedia

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    Providentia was an important moral and philosophical abstraction in Roman discourse. Cicero says it is one of the three main components of prudentia , "the knowledge of things that are good or bad or neither," [ 2 ] along with memoria , "memory," and intellegentia , "understanding."

  4. Prosper of Aquitaine - Wikipedia

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    Carmen de Providentia Divina (Poem on Divine Providence) The problem of providence is discussed in the context of God's creation of the World and in relation to the invasion of Gaul by the Vandals and the Goths. This work has been attributed to Prosper of Aquitaine in the past, but this theory has been discredited. [13]

  5. Theodoret - Wikipedia

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    De providentia, or Ten Discourses on Providence, consists of apologetic discourses, proving the divine providence from the physical order (chapters i-iv), and from the moral and social order (chapters vi-x). They were most probably delivered to the cultured Greek congregation of Antioch, sometime between 431 and 435.

  6. Lucilius Junior - Wikipedia

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    Seneca also dedicated his Naturales Quaestiones and his essay De Providentia to Lucilius. Lucilius seems to have been a native of Campania, and Seneca refers repeatedly to "your beloved Pompeii." [1] At the time Seneca wrote his Letters (c. 65 AD), Lucilius was the procurator (and possibly governor) of Sicily. [2]

  7. List of Latin phrases (M) - Wikipedia

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    Seneca the Younger, De Providentia 2:4. Also, translated into English as "[their] strength and courage droop without an antagonist" ("Of Providence" (1900) by Seneca, translated by Aubrey Stewart), [3] "without an adversary, prowess shrivels" (Moral Essays (1928) by Seneca, translated by John W, Basore) [4] and "prowess withers without opposition".

  8. William Pemble - Wikipedia

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    De formarum origine, 1629; De sensibus internis, 1629; A Short and Sweet Exposition upon the First Nine Chapters of Zachary, 1629; A Summe of Morall Philosophy, 1630; A Briefe Introduction to Geography, 1630; Tractatus de providentia Dei, 1631; The Period of the Persian Monarchie , 1631

  9. Hilary of Arles - Wikipedia

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    A poem, De providentia, usually included among the writings of Prosper of Aquitaine, is sometimes attributed to Hilary of Arles. [3] References