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"In his renowned collection Philosophy as a Way of Life, Pierre Hadot suggests that the original trait of philosophy as a method by which one exercises themselves to achieve a new way of living and seeing the world fails with the rise of modernity. In that time, philosophy increasingly takes on a merely theoretical aspect, tending toward a system. However, Hadot himself glimpses at the dawn of modernity some instances of the original trait of philosophy still very much present, and in his wake, Michel Foucault warns that between the late 16th and early 17th centuries the philosophical question of the reform of the mind attests to a still very close link between asceticism and truth. This book aims to develop just such an idea by thoroughly analyzing the most representative works of the reform of the mind in the early modern period: Francis Bacon's New Organon (1620), René Descartes' Discourse on the Method (1637), and Baruch Spinoza's Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect (1677). From this analysis it will emerge that these modern works fully deserve to be counted among the tradition of philosophy as way of life. On closer inspection, the inquiries about method elaborated in these works are fully understandable only when read in the light of a broader and more complex philosophical need: to establish the spiritual conditions for accessing truth and aspiring to full self-realization"--

Herein, we report on the synthesis and structural characterization of novel charge transfer (CT) complexes of the benzothienobenzothiophene derivative C8O-BTBT-OC8 with the series of FxTCNQ derivatives (x = 2, 4). The degree of charge transfer and HOMO–LUMO gap energies were evaluated by spectroscopic means and by DFT calculations. Thin films of the (C8O-BTBT-OC8)(F4TCNQ) complex were prepared by a simple solution shearing technique and by blending the active materials with polystyrene. X-Ray diffraction and IR/Raman spectroscopy techniques were instrumental for the structural identification of the films, which belonged to the same phase as the resolved single crystal. The films were implemented as an active layer in organic field-effect transistor (OFET) devices, which exhibited an n-type behavior in ambient conditions in agreement with the theoretical calculations. ; This work was funded by European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 811284 (UHMob), the Spanish Ministry with the project GENESIS PID2019-111682RB-I00 and through the "Severo Ochoa" Programme for Centers of Excellence in R&D (FUNFUTURE CEX2019-000917-S), the Generalitat de Catalunya (2017-SGR-918) and the Consortium des Equipements de Calcul Intensif (CECI), funded by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique de Belgique (F.R.S. – FNRS) under grant no. 2.5020.11. A. T. acknowledges his FPU fellowship. A. T and L. F. are enrolled in the UAB Materials Science PhD program. Y. G. is thankful to the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) for financial support through research projects, Pi-Fast No. T.0072.18, and 2D to 3D No. 30489208. Financial supports from the French Community of Belgium (ARC No. 20061) is also acknowledged. DB is a FNRS research director, CQ is a FNRS research associate. S. D. acknowledges financial support from the University of Bologna (RFO-Scheme). TS thanks the European co-financing project FSE REACT EU – PON R&I 2014–2020. ; With funding ...