The Advancement of LearningFrancis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning (1605) is considered the first major philosophical book written in English. In it, Bacon is concerned with scientific learning: the current state of knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities. Here Bacon sets forth the first account of science as intended for "the relief of man's estate." |
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... experience or that life could be lived according to reason alone . This kind of ration- alism was really an expression of faith in — not proof of the autonomy of reason . At most , modern science could only deafen human beings to the ...
... experience demonstrates how learned men have been arch- heretics , how learned times have been inclined to atheism , and how the contemplation of second causes doth derogate from our dependence upon God , who is the first cause . 3. To ...
... experience , that a little or superficial knowledge of Philosophy may incline the mind of man to Atheism , but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to Religion : for in the entrance of Philosophy , when the second ...
... eloquence and speech . 2. But these and the like imputations have rather a countenance of gravity than any ground of justice : for experience doth warrant , that 26 both in persons and in times, there hath been a 10 FRANCIS BACON.
... experience, to the prejudice of the causes they handle: so by like reason it cannot be but a matter of doubtful consequence if states be managed by empiric Statesmen, not well mingled with men grounded in learning. But contrariwise, it ...