The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution
Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue
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Word Count
84,000 words, Guess
Page Count
336 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10192157M
- ISBN-139780226409559
- ISBN-100226409554
- OCLC Control Number64208374
- OCLC Control Numbergoodlifeinscient0000jone
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2006040491
- LibraryThing2600554
- Goodreads352198
Classifications
- LCCQ125.2.J66 2006
Description
"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."--Publisher's website. '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 work as useful for cultivating virtue and for pursuing a good life.
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