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Author | : Steven Matthews |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017-11-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351144707 |
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This study re-evaluates the religious beliefs of Francis Bacon and the role which his theology played in the development of his program for the reform of learning and the natural sciences, the Great Instauration. Bacon's Instauration writings are saturated with theological statements and Biblical references which inform and explain his program, yet this aspect of his writings has received little attention. Previous considerations of Bacon's religion have been drawn from a fairly short list of his published writings. Consequently, Bacon has been portrayed as everything from an atheist to a Puritan; scholarly consensus is lacking. This book argues that by considering the historical context of Bacon's society, and his conversion from Puritanism to anti-Calvinism as a young man, his own theology can be brought into clearer focus, and his philosophy more properly understood. After leaving his mother's household, Bacon underwent a transformation of belief which led him away from his mother's Calvinism and toward the writings of the ancient Church Fathers, particularly Irenaeus of Lyon. Bacon's theology increasingly came to reflect the theological interests of his friend and editor Lancelot Andrewes. The patristic turn of Bacon's belief in the last two decades of the reign of Elizabeth significantly affected the development of his philosophical program which was produced in the first two decades of the Stuart era. This study then examines the theology present in the Instauration writings themselves and concludes with a consideration of the effect which Bacon's theology had on the subsequent direction of empirical science and natural theology in the English context. In so doing it not only offers a new perspective on Bacon, but will serve as a contribution toward a better understanding of the religious context of, and motivations behind, empirical science in early modern England.
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Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Technology |
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Author | : Stephen A. McKnight |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0826264999 |
Download The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon's Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Presents close analysis of eight of Francis Bacon's texts in order to investigate the relation of his religious views to his instauration. Attempts to correct the persistent misconception of Bacon as a secular modern who dismissed religion in order to promote the human advancement of knowledge"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Dana Jalobeanu |
Publisher | : Zeta Books |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Art and science |
ISBN | : 6068266923 |
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Francis Bacon introduced his contemporaries to a new way of investigating nature. He called it "natural and experimental history." Despite its rather traditional name, Bacon's natural and experimental history was a new discipline: it comprised new ideas, new practices and new models of collaborative research. This new discipline was, in many ways, a surprisingly successful project. It provided early modern naturalists with tools, methods and models for both investigating nature and writing about their subject. It also offered a set of norms and values for guiding research. And yet, this new discipline was not a science of nature -- it was more like an art. This book aims to trace the emergence, evolution and reception of Francis Bacon's art of experimental natural history.
Author | : Francis Bacon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Logic |
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Author | : S. Peterfreund |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-08-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230108844 |
Download Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Discusses crucial moments in the historical development of natural theology in England from the time of Francis Bacon to that of Charles Darwin. While the argument from design remains the rhetorical method of choice for natural theologians throughout the three centuries in question, the locus and object of design undergo a change.
Author | : Stephen Gaukroger |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2001-03-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521805360 |
Download Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher.
Author | : George H. Smith |
Publisher | : Cato Institute |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2017-07-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1944424385 |
Download Freethought and Freedom Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Liberty of conscience and freedom of thought are twin, core components of modern life in societies across the world. The ability to pursue one?s vision of the right and the good, coupled with liberty to pursue individual reason and enlightenment, helped produce so much of modern life that we may be apt to forget that libertarian philosophy was not dictated by Nature. Freethought and Freedom surveys the long history of religious and intellectual liberty, exploring their key ideas along the way.
Author | : Victor Nuovo |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019880055X |
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Early modern Europe was the birthplace of the modern secular outlook. During the seventeenth century nature and human society came to be regarded in purely naturalistic, empirical ways, and religion was made an object of critical historical study. John Locke was a central figure in all these events. This study of his philosophical thought shows that these changes did not happen smoothly or without many conflicts of belief: Locke, in the role of Christian Virtuoso, endeavoured to resolve them. He was an experimental natural philosopher, a proponent of the so-called 'new philosophy', a variety of atomism that emerged in early modern Europe. But he was also a practising Christian, and he professed confidence that the two vocations were not only compatible, but mutually sustaining. He aspired, without compromising his empirical stance, to unite the two vocations in a single philosophical endeavour with the aim of producing a system of Christian philosophy.
Author | : Francis Bacon |
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Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Science |
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