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The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution : Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue by Jones, Matthew L - 2006
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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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2006. First Edition. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006. 15 x 22,5 cm. XVI, 389 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. Signed / With the author's dedication to Graham Parkes on the half title. Contains among others: Geometry as Spiritual Exercise; A Rhetorical History of Truth; Mathematical Liasons; The Anthropology of Disproportion etc.
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