Article ID: CBB000830789

Descartes and Pascal on the Eucharist (2007)

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Alexandrescu, Vlad (Author)


Perspectives on Science
Volume: 15
Pages: 434--449


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: Descartes and Pascal
Language: English

Within Descartes' philosophy, the problem of the Eucharist provides scholars the occasion to investigate a nexus of questions belonging to different domains of his thought. In taking up this problem, about which there has been much written in the past few decades (see the bibliography below), I hope first of all to discern some order in the texts themselves, as well also as in their various interpretations, and then, from there, to propose a new perspective.

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