LEADER 03760nam 22006854a 450 001 9910782460003321 005 20230124182744.0 010 $a1-281-95723-2 010 $a0-226-40956-2 010 $a9786611957230 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226409566 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578489 035 $a(EBL)408535 035 $a(OCoLC)476229536 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000164484 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11154794 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164484 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10121321 035 $a(PQKB)11404612 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123088 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408535 035 $a(DE-B1597)523756 035 $a(OCoLC)1135579069 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226409566 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408535 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265939 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195723 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578489 100 $a20060210d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe good life in the scientific revolution$b[electronic resource] $eDescartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the cultivation of virtue /$fMatthew L. Jones 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (404 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-40955-4 311 $a0-226-40954-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [329]-361) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tA Note on Conventions -- $tIntroduction -- $tPART I. Descartes -- $tPA RT II. Pascal -- $tPA RT III. Leibniz -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aAmid 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. 606 $aScience$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aMathematics$xPhilosophy$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aScience$xMoral and ethical aspects 610 $avirtue, leibniz, pascal, descartes, philosophy, scientific revolution, consolation, purpose, suffering, meaning, morality, ethics, assurance, comfort, science, religion, faith, spirituality, cognition, personal growth, mathematics, discipline, nobility, calculus, arithmetical triangle, geometry, moral therapeutics, history, disproportion, truth, expression, nonfiction. 615 0$aScience$xHistory 615 0$aMathematics$xPhilosophy$xHistory 615 0$aScience$xMoral and ethical aspects. 676 $a509.032 686 $aCF 1250$2rvk 700 $aJones$b Matthew L$g(Matthew Laurence),$f1972-$01465395 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782460003321 996 $aThe good life in the scientific revolution$93675402 997 $aUNINA