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Of Evil and Earthquakes: Rousseau and Voltaire on the Lisbon Disaster
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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.
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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, Rousseau gives the inevitable problem of pride its due in his
teachings of providence.
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Rousseau , Emile, p.608.
Prepared for the 2005 American Political Science Assocation meetings.
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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.
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, Rousseau gives the inevitable problem of pride its due in his
teachings of providence.
39
Rousseau , Emile, p.608.
Prepared for the 2005 American Political Science Assocation meetings.
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