The Lisbon earthquake and the scientific turn in Kant's philosophy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12417904
AutoresSvend Erik Larsen (0000-0001-6748-8029, Aarhus University, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume14
Fascículo3
Páginas359-367
Data de publicação2006-06-08
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1062-7987 • E-ISSN: 1474-0575
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1062798706000366
OpenAlexW2088349043
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

In contrast to other previous and later disasters the Lisbon earthquake was more than a local disaster that changed the life of the Portuguese population and later became subject to the merciless oblivion of history. This cataclysm left lasting traces in European science, social life, religion and philosophy. The material effects were rapidly felt all over Europe, also affecting the economy and the whole conception of how humans should think and act in a world where such events occurred. This paper follows the change in Immanuel Kant's philosophy after the earthquake based on the thesis that this event contributed fundamentally to the formation of Kant's mature philosophy and its paradigmatic status in European thought until the present day

Continental philosophy · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · History of philosophy · Philosophy of history · Political science · Population · Portuguese · Sociology · Subject (documents · Demography · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy and Historical Thought · Space exploration and regulation