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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 ...
Philo of Alexandria (/ ˈ f aɪ l oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Φίλων, romanized: Phílōn; Hebrew: יְדִידְיָה, romanized: Yəḏīḏyāh; c. 20 BCE – c. 50 CE), also called Philō Judæus, [a] was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt.
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
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.
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."
De Brevitate Vitae (Seneca) De libero arbitrio diatribe sive collatio; De ortu et progressu morum; De Providentia; De spectaculis; De Vita Beata; The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond; A Defence of Common Sense; Digital Maoism; Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
His brother Seneca, who dedicated to him the treatises De Ira and De Vita Beata, speaks of the charm of his disposition, also alluded to by the poet Statius (Silvae, ii.7, 32). It is probable that he was banished to Corsica with his brother, and that they returned together to Rome when Agrippina selected Seneca to be tutor to Nero .
Aegyptus sive de providentia, in two parts, also known as The Egyptian Tale, about the war against the Goth Gainas and the conflict between the two brothers Aurelianus and Caesarius; De insomniis, a treatise on dreams; Constitutio; Catastasis, a description of the end of Roman Cyrenaica