{"id":11833,"date":"2010-02-15T08:47:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T08:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/15\/was-descartes-poisoned-by-a-catholic-priest\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T08:47:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T08:47:57","slug":"was-descartes-poisoned-by-a-catholic-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/15\/was-descartes-poisoned-by-a-catholic-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Descartes Poisoned by a Catholic Priest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0120a8a13e36970b-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Descartes-rene\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0120a8a13e36970b \" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0120a8a13e36970b-320wi\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> As we have been learning, the conceivability of such theological doctrines as Trinity, Incarnation, and Transubstantiation depends on one&#39;s background ontology.&#0160; Erlangen University&#39;s Theodor Ebert, according to <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/feb\/14\/rene-descartes-poisoned-catholic-priest\"><font face=\"Georgia\">this Guardian account<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, argues that the father of modern philosophy was poisoned with an arsenic-laced communion wafer by a Catholic priest because his metaphysical position is inconsistent with the Transubstantiation doctrine.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">This raises an interesting question:&#0160; Isn&#39;t a Catholic priest&#39;s commission of murder by desecration of the host far worse than a philosopher&#39;s holding of heretical views?<\/font>&#0160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have been learning, the conceivability of such theological doctrines as Trinity, Incarnation, and Transubstantiation depends on one&#39;s background ontology.&#0160; Erlangen University&#39;s Theodor Ebert, according to this Guardian account, argues that the father of modern philosophy was poisoned with an arsenic-laced communion wafer by a Catholic priest because his metaphysical position is inconsistent with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/15\/was-descartes-poisoned-by-a-catholic-priest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Was Descartes Poisoned by a Catholic Priest?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-doctrine","category-descartes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}