Blame, Responsibility, and Natural Disaster. A Brief History
- Date
- Oct 16, 2023
- Time
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
- Speaker
- Lorraine Daston
- Affiliation
- Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin / University of Chicago
- Language
- en
- Main Topic
- Biologie
- Host
- Science & Society
- Description
- 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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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and GeneticsPfotenhauerstraße10801307Dresden
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- +49 351 210-0
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- http://www.mpi-cbg.de
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