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boccaderlupo ([personal profile] boccaderlupo) wrote in [personal profile] sdi 2021-12-30 12:45 am (UTC)

I have some relatives who are Calvinists, and was exposed to that theology, so I'm not unfamiliar with that brand of determinism. I reckon the Fates (or maybe Nature, or Necessity (or maybe all these)) deals the hand, and we are the ones who make of it what we will.

It might be Sallustius where I first encountered the term "pronoia," which may be in the Nock translation, and not, if I recall right, a felicitous translation of the concept being advanced. But I recall some discussion somewhere about the difference of feeling between a wholly deterministic universe and one wherein the fruits of the Divine are regarded as Providential...

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