03369nam 22006854a 450 991082287740332120200520144314.01-281-95723-20-226-40956-2978661195723010.7208/9780226409566(CKB)1000000000578489(EBL)408535(OCoLC)476229536(SSID)ssj0000164484(PQKBManifestationID)11154794(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164484(PQKBWorkID)10121321(PQKB)11404612(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123088(MiAaPQ)EBC408535(DE-B1597)523756(OCoLC)1135579069(DE-B1597)9780226409566(Au-PeEL)EBL408535(CaPaEBR)ebr10265939(CaONFJC)MIL195723(EXLCZ)99100000000057848920060210d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe good life in the scientific revolution Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the cultivation of virtue /Matthew L. Jones1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20061 online resource (404 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-40955-4 0-226-40954-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-361) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Conventions -- Introduction -- PART I. Descartes -- PA RT II. Pascal -- PA RT III. Leibniz -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexAmid 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. ScienceHistory17th centuryMathematicsPhilosophyHistory17th centuryScienceMoral and ethical aspectsScienceHistoryMathematicsPhilosophyHistoryScienceMoral and ethical aspects.509.032CF 1250rvkJones Matthew L(Matthew Laurence),1972-1617614MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822877403321The good life in the scientific revolution3948880UNINA