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The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution

The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution

Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue

by Matthew L. Jones
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/10/2006

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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, Rene 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.
ISBN:
9780226409559
9780226409559
Category:
Ethics & moral philosophy
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-10-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
23x17x2mm
Weight:
0.65kg

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