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Of Evil and Earthquakes: Rousseau and Voltaire on the Lisbon Disaster |
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| Scott, John. "Of Evil and Earthquakes: Rousseau and Voltaire on the Lisbon Disaster" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p39999_index.html> |
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| Scott, J. T. , 2005-09-01 "Of Evil and Earthquakes: Rousseau and Voltaire on the Lisbon Disaster" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p39999_index.html |
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| 1 Pride and providence: Religion in Rousseau’s Lettre à Voltaire sur la providence John T. Scott If pride is the root of fanaticism the need for recognition among developed human beings is also what leads Rousseau to offer a religious teaching with a God who exercises particular providence over individuals and their immortal souls that he knows is doubtful if not simply false. Rousseau encourages a belief in particular providence because the general providence of nature he advances as |
| 23 voulois des communications plus immédiates des instructions plus particulières et non content de faire Dieu semblable à l’homme pour être privilégié moi-même parmi mes semblables je voulois des lumières surnaturelles je voulois un culte exclusif je voulois que d’autres n’auroient pas entendu comme moi.39 The human desire for the particular attention of the divinity and the desire for preferment among one’s fellows therefore have a common source in pride. Whatever the dictates of reason in matters of religion |
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