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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... nature, and he showed how real natural science, as opposed to airy metaphysical systems, would lead to the conquest of nature and the “relief of man's estate” (Book One, V. 11). Many great thinkers of the Enlightenment—the likes of ...
... nature points to and actually discloses divine providence. This confusion of philosophy and theology, says Bacon, leads the human mind to a false conception of nature. The world is taken as a conglomeration of things—human beings, trees ...
... nature. Bacon completely rejects the teleological vision of nature, which he thought had not only persisted despite the advent of Christianity, but had in fact been absorbed into Christian thought and learning. For Bacon, the ...
... nature is divine, and thus makes natural science possible, so natural science clears the air for considering the true laws of God. But suppose the comforts a¤orded by natural science cause faith to weaken or disappear? How then will we ...
... Nature (with two Appendices on Divination and Fascination). Its Functions. (De Augm. v.) 114 Intellectual, whose Arts are four. 115 Of Invention. 116 Of Arts (deficient). 116 Of Speech. 120 Of Judgment, whose Methods are— 122 Of ...