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- Title The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue
- Author Matthew L. Jones
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition.
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date 2006-10-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780226409559 / 0226409554
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.04 x 0.86 in (22.86 x 15.34 x 2.18 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Chronological Period: Modern
- Library of Congress subjects Descartes, Rene, Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006040491
- Dewey Decimal Code 509.032
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Paperback / softback. New. Amid the unrest, dislocation, and uncertainty of seventeenth-century Europe, readers seeking consolation and assurance turned to philosophical and scientific books that offered ways of conquering fears and training the mind-guidance for living a good life. The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution presents a triptych showing how three key early modern scientists, Ren Descartes, Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibniz, envisioned their new work as useful for cultivating virtue and for pursuing a good life. Their scientific and philosophical innovations stemmed in part from their understanding of mathematics and science as cognitive and spiritual exercises that could create a truer mental and spiritual nobility. In portraying the rich contexts surrounding Descartes' geometry, Pascal's arithmetical triangle, and Leibniz's calculus, Matthew L. Jones argues that this drive for moral therapeutics guided important developments of early modern philosophy and the…
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