Francis BaconPrinceton University Press, 10 nov 2020 - 80 pagina's Francis Bacon (1561-1626), commonly regarded as one of the founders of the Scientific Revolution, exerted a powerful influence on the intellectual development of the modern world. He also led a remarkably varied and dramatic life as a philosopher, writer, lawyer, courtier, and statesman. Although there has been much recent scholarship on individual aspects of Bacon's career, Perez Zagorin's is the first work in many years to present a comprehensive account of the entire sweep of his thought and its enduring influence. Combining keen scholarly and psychological insights, Zagorin reveals Bacon as a man of genius, deep paradoxes, and pronounced flaws. |
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... statement , I have tried my best , nevertheless , to make Bacon intelligible as a thinker of his time and to bring out the richness , variety , and greatness of his work . In English culture , Bacon's lifetime saw the appearance of ...
... statement ( to which I shall return in the following chapter ) of his " vast contemplative ends ” contrasted with his “ moderate civil ends , ” famously adding that “ I have taken all knowledge to be my province . ” If Burghley did not ...
Perez Zagorin. calculated with a view to his own fortunes , his statement that he spoke his conscience was doubtless sincere . This was the last time , though , that he ever took an independent stand in disagreement with authority or ...
... darling sin ” was his notorious homosexuality.36 These statements , which came from men a generation or more younger than Bacon who never knew him personally , " 34 937 could only have been a distillation of numerous contemporary CHAPTER 1.
... statement “ I had rather know than be known . 945 As part of his worldly wisdom he took a keen interest in dissimulation and cunning , which he discussed in several of his works and to whose uses and effects he devoted a couple of his ...
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The Great Instauration | 74 |
Morals and Politics | 129 |
Language Law and History | 175 |
Conclusion | 221 |
INDEX | 281 |