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22%OFFMatthew L. Jones - The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue - 9780226409559 - V9780226409559
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The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue

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Description for The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 9 halftoens, 13 line drawings. BIC Classification: HPQ; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 546.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226409559
SKU
V9780226409559
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