The "Fortuitous Event" between Philosophy, Politics and Theology

• Montserrat Herrero ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Navarra

     Universidad de Navarra

     Pamplona, España

     
• Localización: Giornale di Metafisica: revista bimestrale di filosofia, ISSN 0017-0372, Vol. 43, Nº. 2, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: In tempo di pandemia / coord. por Giuseppe Nicolaci, Leonardo Samonà), págs. 387-396
• Idioma: inglés
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• 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.