“This Was No Act of God:” Disaster, Causality, and Politics
“This Was No Act of God:” Disaster, Causality, and Politics
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“这不是天灾”：灾难、因果关系和政治
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2015
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G. Dodds
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G. Dodds
本文从三个方面探讨了人类对自然灾害认识的演变。首先，它认为人类对自然灾害的看法随着时间的推移发生了巨大的变化，从将因果关系和责任归咎于上帝和宗教，到自然和科学，再到人性和政治。其次，它通过考察“天灾”这一法律的范畴如何在现代法学中变得越来越过时和无关，来追踪这一广泛发展的一部分。第三，它概述了这一发展对人类机构和政治的更强大的概念的影响，并考虑了灾害概念变化的原因。
This article explores the evolution of human understandings of putatively natural disasters in three respects. First, it contends that human conceptions of natural disasters have dramatically changed over time, from placing causality and responsibility with God and religion, to nature and science, to humanity and politics. Second, it tracks part of that broad development by examining how the legal category “Act of God” has become increasingly archaic and irrelevant in modern jurisprudence. Third, it outlines the implications of this development for more robust conceptions of human agency and politics, and it considers the causes of the changing conceptions of disaster.