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Francis Bacon and the transformation of early-modern philosophy /
This ambitious and important book provides the first truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It explores in detail how and why Bacon attempted to transform the largely esoteric discipline of natural philosophy into a public practice through a program in which practical science provi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. nature of Bacon's project
- From arcane learning to public knowledge
- via media
- Practical knowledge
- classification of knowledge
- Mathematics and practical learning
- Eclecticism
- 2. Humanist models for scientia
- education in rhetoric
- office of the philosopher
- reform of law
- 3. legitimation of natural philosophy
- Zealotry and the well-ordered state
- religious vindication of natural philosophy
- political vindication of natural philosophy
- disciplinary vindication of natural philosophy
- utilitarian vindication of natural philosophy
- 4. shaping of the natural philosopher
- psychology of knowledge
- poverty of antiquity
- interpretation of the past
- External impediments and the historicisation of knowledge
- 'Purging the floor of the mind'
- 5. Method as a way of pursuing natural philosophy
- 'Great Instauration'
- Atomism: method and natural philosophy
- 'A new and certain path'
- method of discovery?
- Prerogative instances
- Productive truth
- institutional setting
- 6. Dominion over nature
- Matter theory and natural philosophy
- sources of Bacon's matter theory
- Atomism and motion
- Democritus and Cupid
- theory of the cosmos
- Spiritus and the preservation of life.