{"product_id":"the-good-life-in-the-scientific-revolution-descartes-pascal-leibniz-and-the-cultivation-of-virtue-9780226409559","title":"The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Matthew L. Jones\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmid 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Good Life in the Scientific Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47612991701143,"sku":"9780226409559","price":4704.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226409559.webp?v=1775081813","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-good-life-in-the-scientific-revolution-descartes-pascal-leibniz-and-the-cultivation-of-virtue-9780226409559","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}