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1 online resource (404 pages)
ISBN:
9780226409566
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Conventions -- Introduction -- PART 1 : DESCARTES -- 1 Geometry as Spiritual Exercise -- 2 A Rhetorical History of Truth -- PART 2 : PASCAL -- 3 Mathematical Liaisons -- 4 The Anthropology of Disproportion -- PART 3 : LEIBNIZ -- 5 Forms of Expression -- 6 Seeing All at Once -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226409542
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jones, Matthew L., 1972 - The good life in the scientific revolution Chicago [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006 ISBN 0226409546
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0226409554
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226409542
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226409559
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Print version The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution : Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Mathematik
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Philosophie
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Geschichte 1600-1720
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Naturwissenschaften
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Philosophie
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Geschichte 1600-1720
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Pascal, Blaise 1623-1662
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Descartes, René 1596-1650
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716
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Ethik
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Tugend
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