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UNINA990004101050403321 |
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Barthélemy-Madaule, Madeleine |
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Bergson adversaire de Kant : études critique de la conception bergsonienne du kantisme suive d'une bibliographie kantienne / par Madeleine Barthelemy-Madaule ; preface de Vladimir Jankelevitch |
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Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1966 |
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Bibliothèque de philosophie contemporaine , Histoire de la philosophie et philosophie générale |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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UNINA9910970749203321 |
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Jones Matthew L (Matthew Laurence), <1972-> |
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The good life in the scientific revolution : Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the cultivation of virtue / / Matthew L. Jones |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006 |
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9786611957230 |
9781281957238 |
1281957232 |
9780226409566 |
0226409562 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (404 p.) |
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Science - History - 17th century |
Mathematics - Philosophy - History - 17th century |
Science - Moral and ethical aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-361) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Conventions -- Introduction -- PART I. Descartes -- PA RT II. Pascal -- PA RT III. Leibniz -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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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 |
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therapeutics guided important developments of early modern philosophy and the Scientific Revolution. |
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