The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue
ISBN-13:
9780226409559
ISBN-10:
0226409554
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Matthew L. Jones
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Paperback
336 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780226409559
ISBN-10:
0226409554
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Matthew L. Jones
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Paperback
336 pages
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The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue (ISBN-13: 9780226409559 and ISBN-10: 0226409554), written by authors
Matthew L. Jones, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2006.
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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, René 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 Scientific Revolution.
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