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 ...
... Descartes by Pascal is as impor- tant to Descartes — so that we can measure how far and in what way he falls within metaphysics — as it is to Pascal , who was obliged to contest philosophy — thus the philosophy of Descartes — in order ...