which keeps all these things in order and the one Providence that watches over them and the ancillary powers that are set over all.”118 Table 1. Philosophical Schools/Movements The concept of an absolute, transcendent deity inevitably raised the question of how communication between god and humankind was possible. Plutarch maintains the existence of intermediary beings that maintain contact with the true deity and maintain an indispensable function for humankind. He
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