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

Any de publicació: 2021

Títol de l'exemplar: In tempo di pandemia

Volum: 43

Número: 2

Pàgines: 387-396

Tipus: Article

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Resum

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.

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