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The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution
- Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue
Engelsk Hardback
The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution
- Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue
Engelsk Hardback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9780226409542
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226409546
Udg. Dato:
1 okt 2006
Længde:
3mm
Bredde:
17mm
Højde:
23mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
1 okt 2006
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