Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/Y9cTVSR The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue By: Matthew L. Jones Publisher: University of Chicago Press Print ISBN: 9780226409559, 0226409554 eText ISBN: 9780226409566, 0226409562 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2006 Format: PDF Available from $ 37.00 USD SKU 9780226409566 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.
