| 词汇 | providence |
| 释义 | providence noun[ U ] uk /ˈprɒv.ɪ.dəns/ us /ˈprɑː.və.dəns/ an influence that is not human in origin and is thought to control people's lives: 天意，天道，天命 divine providence神的旨意 Fate and destiny align break Damocles destined destiny fatalism fate fated ill-fated ill-starred in the lap of the godsidiom lap lightning luckless predestination predestined preordain providential sword of Damoclesidiom written in the starsidiom providence | American Dictionaryprovidence noun[ U ] us/ˈprɑv·ɪ·dəns, -əˌdens/ the care and control of God or of a force that is not human in origin: He trusts in divine providence. Examples of providenceprovidence We should resist the temptation to follow him, however misanthropic we may be, because human wickedness and incompetence without providence will produce only chaos. One theory of divine providence allows for this. The laws that govern nature's activity reflect the divine providence, ensuring the stability and order of nature. These insights and associated tools can therefore support providence and exploration with either least or specific design decision commitments. Their concept of divine providence (pronoia) might provide an indication. But they arise quite naturally when we begin to think seriously about divine providence. Nature or, for many nineteenth-century observers, providence was the ultimate cause of the potato blight - and providence, of course, could only be praised. Descartes could maintain (not without controversy, but with some plausibility) that this understanding of providence does not entail causal determinism. Strands of both the ' proof from providence ' and the ' proof from creation ' thus become intertwined in the uppermost reaches of philosophical theory. Then, too, and even when trivialized, civil authority had no rhetorical counter to a minister who questioned the world through the guiding hand of providence. I do not think that this way of trying to reconcile providence and freedom is successful. We can see this by means of an argument from providence. It requires a designer to take a providence approach when finalizing a solution. This section briefly describes providence related research in the area of life-oriented design. Monarchy might be limited by arguments from custom and law, but it was the discourse of providence that gave a script to regicides. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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