The "Fortuitous Event" between Philosophy, Politics and Theology

  1. Montserrat Herrero 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Navarra
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    Universidad de Navarra

    Pamplona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02rxc7m23

Revista:
Giornale di Metafisica: revista bimestrale di filosofia
  1. Nicolaci, Giuseppe (coord.)
  2. Samonà, Leonardo (coord.)

ISSN: 0017-0372

Año de publicación: 2021

Título del ejemplar: In tempo di pandemia

Volumen: 43

Número: 2

Páginas: 387-396

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: Giornale di Metafisica: revista bimestrale di filosofia

Resumen

This article addresses the need of every human community to look into the future in order to achieve a certain security. By examining the concept of the “fortuitous event”, however, the impossibility of a purely human construction of history is shown. In particular, the article considers one of the fortuitous events that stimulated the production of a great deal of philosophical literature, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, and uses it as a mirror to understand the historical discontinuity that the present Covid pandemic has brought about.