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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... justly esteem'd the father of modern experimental philosophy . " According to this view , Bacon freed the human intellect from its enthrallment to ancient thought and the sterile legacy of that thought , VII Introduction JERRY WEINBERGER.
... human life is guided and supported only by reason . But even in this regard , Bacon's once high reputation faded ... human progress . Rather than unambiguous forces for good , science and tech- nology had served revolutionary and ...
... human beings to the call of the mysterious and the divine . But science had not seriously considered the possibility ... human soul ? Bacon discussed precisely those matters , which have become humanity's most pressing concerns . While ...
... human progress - bound political power to theological power . Bacon thus asks the King to support some pretty dangerous , indeed revolutionary , business . No wonder he calls his treatise " The Advance- ment of Learning , ” as if it ...
... human mind to a false conception of nature . The world is taken as a conglomeration of things — human beings , trees , mountains , lions , water , etc. — all held together in a coherent and ranked order . Such an order is “ teleological ...