Un corps plein de membres pensants

Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 190 (2):193 - 200 (2000)
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« Qu'on s'imagine un corps plein de membres pensants », écrit Pascal (fr. 371), reprenant une métaphore paulinienne (I Cor. 12, 12-26). L'idée est banale au XVIIe siècle. Mais Pascal renouvelle ce thème théologique à partir de sa lecture de Montaigne et cherche ainsi à résoudre le triple problème de la communauté, de la communication et de la communion. Il démystifie la politique en édifiant, à partir de la biologie, une hypothèse que renforce la mystique. « Let us imagine a body full of thinking members », Pascal writes (fr. 371), thereby with reference to a metaphor of St Paul's (I Cor. 12, 12-26). The idea is rather a commonplace one in the XVIIth century. But Pascal renews such a theological theme from his reading of Montaigne and thus tries to solve the three-fold problem... of community, communication and communion. Starting from biology, he demystifies politics by erecting some new hypothesis reinforcing mysticism

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