An edition of Theodicy: essays on divine providence.
(1912)
Theodicy
Essays On Divine Providence, Volume 2
by Antonio Rosmini
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
BOOK THE THIRD.
(Continued.)
On the Law of the Least Means applied to the Government of Divine Providence.
XII. The Problem which Essential Wisdom had to solve in order to trace out the mode of operation to be followed by Essential Goodness 3
XIII. The Principle to be followed in solving the Problem of the Wisdom that creates and governs the world 9
XIV. First Consequence: — When God can obtain a given quantity of good by the use of Created Entities and Activities, it is not fitting that He should obtain it by an extraordinary and immediate intervention of His Power 11
XV. Continuation. — Necessity of Secondary Causes 14
XVI. Second Consequence : — When God has by His Government obtained all the good He can obtain from all the Activities of His Creatures, it is in accordance with His Goodness that He should add His own immediate action, so as to produce in them and to derive from them that good which they, in whatever way governed, could not by themselves yield, maintaining, however, in the case of this Supernatural Action also, the Law of the Least Means 16
XVII. Third Consequence : — Law of Excluded Superfluity 29
XVIII. Fourth Consequence : — Law of the Permission of Evil 40
XIX. Recapitulation, and connexion with what follows 56
XX. Fifth Consequence: — It was fitting that God should place the beings He willed to create, in connexion with one another, so as to form of them a single harmonious whole 60
XXI. Sixth Consequence :— It was fitting that the Universe should be ordered according to the Law of Continuity, or Gradation 78
XXII. Seventh Consequence :— It was fitting that the Universe should be ordered according to the Law of Variety, in the Actuations and Modifications of beings 89
XXIII. Continuation.— The Law of Wisdom has for its end the complete realization of the several species, not the multiplication of Individuals. — Law of Excluded Equality 98
XXIV. Eighth Consequence:— Law of Unity in God's Action 129
XXV. Ninth Consequence: — It was necessary that the World should be governed in accordance with the Laws of Wisdom as expounded above, in order that there might result from it the Glory of God, the end for which the Universe was created 148
XXVI. Continuation 186
XXVII. Tenth Consequence: — God follows in His Action the Law of Heroism, that is to say, the Law of Extremes 200
XXVIII. Continuation. — Law of Antagonism 208
XXIX. Continuation. — Issue of Antagonism 312
XXX. Continuation.— Forces God brings together in the Conflict 329
XXXI. Eleventh Consequence :— Law of Celerity is Action 356
XXXII. Twelfth Consequence: — Law of the Accumulation of Goods 371
XXXIII. Thirteenth Consequence : — Law of Germ. 389
XXXIV. On the Absolute Measure of Good and of Evil 392
XXXV. Of Providence in regard of the Good of Particular Individuals 412
XXXVI. Conclusion 437
Appendix A 443
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