The New Atlantis - Softcover

Bacon, Francis; Bacon, Sir Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184902958X ISBN 13: 9781849029582

Verlag: Benediction Books, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) wrote New Atlantis around 1632. He wrote of his aspiration for establishing an ideal commonwealth. This section from the introduction gives a summary of Bacon's reasons for writing this short essay. "The generosity and enlightenment, the dignity and splendor, the piety and public spirit, of the inhabitants of Bensalem represent the ideal qualities which Bacon the statesman desired rather than hoped to see characteristic of his own country; and in Solomon's House we have Bacon the scientist indulging without restriction his prophetic vision of the future of human knowledge. No reader acquainted in any degree with the processes and results of modern scientific inquiry can fail to be struck by the numerous approximations made by Bacon's imagination to the actual achievements of modern times." Even in Bacon's idealistic viewpoint he still saw science in a practical manner. Science was the way to man's advancement. Bacon's ideals have yet to be achieved, but they do give us goals to reach for.

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Biografía del autor

Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), English philosopher, statesman, and essayist,was born atYork House inLondon. The fifth son of Nicholas Bacon, he was left penniless at the death of his father. He pursued studies in law and entered the House of Commons, but his career advanced only after King James I ascended the throne. Baconopposed Aristotelian and Scholastic schools of thought and instead presented his own empirical philosophy.

Reseña del editor

Bacon's The New Atlantis was written in the author's last years. In this utopian novel about a mythical land called Bensalem, the inhabitants live happily with sciences and with generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendor, piety and public spirit. These were the ideal qualities which Bacon wanted to see in 17th century England.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Benediction Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 184902958X
• ISBN 13: 9781849029582
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 62
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