First Edition. 15 x 22,5 cm. XVI, 389 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. Signed / With the author's dedication to Graham Parkes on the half title. Contains among others: Geometry as Spiritual Exercise; A Rhetorical History of Truth; Mathematical Liasons; The Anthropology of Disproportion etc. Sprache: english.

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Title

The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution. Descartes, Pascal, Leibnitz, and the Cultivation of Virtue.

Publisher

Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Publication Date

2006

Language

English

ISBN 10

0226409554

ISBN 13

9780226409559

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Weight

1200 grams

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Varia

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Synopsis

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, Ren� 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.

About the Author

Matthew L. Jones is associate professor of history at Columbia University.

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