Tsunami Europae
n.b. blogging continues: Our favorite WiFi cafe has redecorated and reopened.
A good commentary on the Tsunami appeared in the Boston Globe: Scot Lehigh compared the Indian Ocean disaster to the earthquake that destroyed Lisbon on All Saint's Day, 1755, and caught most of the city's population worshipping at mass. Thus, the Tsunami was widely interpreted--as it should be--as an argument against the existence (or the benevolence) of God.
The Philocrites blog has commented on this article's representation of Voltaire as against theodicies (technical jargon for any question that reduces to the form "Why did Job lose everything?"). They see Lehigh as finding that Voltaire's view (against theodicies) 'has become commonplace today.' We think the evidence suggests that the philosophe's view is common in some places more than others.
A good commentary on the Tsunami appeared in the Boston Globe: Scot Lehigh compared the Indian Ocean disaster to the earthquake that destroyed Lisbon on All Saint's Day, 1755, and caught most of the city's population worshipping at mass. Thus, the Tsunami was widely interpreted--as it should be--as an argument against the existence (or the benevolence) of God.
The Philocrites blog has commented on this article's representation of Voltaire as against theodicies (technical jargon for any question that reduces to the form "Why did Job lose everything?"). They see Lehigh as finding that Voltaire's view (against theodicies) 'has become commonplace today.' We think the evidence suggests that the philosophe's view is common in some places more than others.
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