I don't dare ask the coronavirus to be our Lisbon earthquake, because between us I don't see a Kant or a Voltaire , but it should be. Each generation suffers a collective trauma that allows them to rediscover the Mediterranean of human fragility and invites them to act accordingly. The Enlightenment would not have unfolded as it did without the brutal earthquake of 1755, which forced the intelligence to rethink its optimism and offered the will a new limit to overcome. So e

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