The "Fortuitous Event" between Philosophy, Politics and Theology
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Universidad de Navarra
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- Nicolaci, Giuseppe (coord.)
- Samonà, Leonardo (coord.)
ISSN: 0017-0372
Année de publication: 2021
Titre de la publication: In tempo di pandemia
Volumen: 43
Número: 2
Pages: 387-396
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Giornale di Metafisica: revista bimestrale di filosofia
Résumé
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.