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  • noun An attempt, or argument attempting, to justify the existence of humanity as good (contrast theodicy).

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  • The theoretical life remained as distinct from the practical life in their view as in the ancient one—theory looking to the universal and unchangeable while understanding its relation to the particular and changing; practice, totally absorbed by the latter, seeing the whole only in terms of it, as a theodicy or an anthropodicy, presented as Cod or History.

    THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

  • The theoretical life remained as distinct from the practical life in their view as in the ancient one—theory looking to the universal and unchangeable while understanding its relation to the particular and changing; practice, totally absorbed by the latter, seeing the whole only in terms of it, as a theodicy or an anthropodicy, presented as Cod or History.

    THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

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