MOC - Philosophically Important Disasters
- WWII
- Earthquake at Lisbon
- Plague (Thucydides)
- 30 Years War
- COVID-19
What happened
Influence
- was like WWII for the modern period
Philosophical responses
Kant's response: use scientific knowledge to learn earthquakes (Wrote a book on the nature of Earthquakes) Voltaire's response: this is awful (wrote poem on it, then mentioned in Voltaire, Candide)