Blame, Responsibility, and Natural Disaster. A Brief History
- Datum
- 16.10.2023
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- 14:00 - 15:00
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- Lorraine Daston
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- Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin / University of Chicago
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- The purely natural disaster, for which no one is to blame, is an Enlightenment category. Previously, there just disasters, and plenty of blame to go around: human, divine, and natural causes were all part of the explanation. Enlightenment thinkers (especially Enlightenment theologians) succeeded in separating causes of disasters into three mutually exclusive categories: natural causes (tragic, but no one’s fault); supernatural miracles (a divine suspension of the natural order); and human agency (the only category which was blameworthy). In the age of anthropogenic climate change, we are fast losing the category of the natural disaster – and with it, the concept of blameless evil.
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