Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626Brian Wormald provides a fundamental reappraisal of one of the most complex and innovative figures of the late-Elizabethan and Jacobean age. In the centuries since his death, Francis Bacon (1561-1626) has been perceived and studied as a promoter and prophet of the philosophy of science--natural science--but he saw himself also as a clarifier and promoter of what he called "policy" or the study and improvement of the structure and function of civil states. Mr. Wormald shows that Bacon was concerned equally with the knowledge of the world of nature and with that of policy. The junction between the two enterprises was effected by his work in history; and in the end it was Bacon's conception and practice of history that provided the answer to his efforts to advance policy and natural philosophy. |
Cosa dicono le persone - Scrivi una recensione
Nessuna recensione trovata nei soliti posti.
Sommario
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | 1 |
Two programmes Know thyself and know the universe of nature | 26 |
Knowledges are as pyramids whereof history is the basis history civil this latter extended to describe and to include the Common Law of England | 46 |
Logic idols of the mind rhetoric | 77 |
Policy a great part of philosophy Bacons engagements in policy | 91 |
Morality and policy I | 109 |
Morality and policy II | 145 |
Civil history of letters civil history mixed | 214 |
Civil history of the reign of King Henry the 7th | 241 |
Aims and claims but no metaphysics of nature | 261 |
No metaphysics of nature civil history supplies Bacons masculine birth of time | 284 |
Bacon and his markers I | 313 |
Bacon and his markers II | 338 |
Notes | 370 |
| 399 | |
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626 Brian Harvey Goodwin Wormald Anteprima non disponibile - 2006 |
Parole e frasi comuni
according achieved action active Advancement affairs already ancient Aphorism applied argument Aristotle arts authority axioms Bacon better body Book called canon causes certainty civil history claims collection common concerning conduct consists constitution continued course discourse distinct divine doubt effect Empire England essay evidence examples experience final follow former further hand hath Henry historians human idols improvement judgment kind King Know knowledge learning less logic Machiavelli man's matters means men's mind mixed moral namely natural history natural philosophy nature needed nevertheless noted Novum Organum observation Parliament particulars past philosophy political possible practice present procedure programme proposed providence rational reason reference regard relations religion respect rhetoric rules seen statement things thinking thought treatise true truth universe writes wrote
Riferimenti a questo libro
Union and Empire: The Making of the United Kingdom in 1707 Allan I. Macinnes Anteprima limitata - 2007 |
A History of the Modern British Isles, 1529-1603: The Two Kingdoms Mark Nicholls Anteprima non disponibile - 1999 |
Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626 Cambridge studies in the history and theory of politics, ISSN 0575-6871 |
| Autori | B. H. G. Wormald, Wormald Brian Harvey Goodwin |
| Curatore | Cambridge University Press |
| Edizione | illustrata, ristampa |
| Editore | Cambridge University Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0521307732, 9780521307734 |
| Lunghezza | 409 pagine |
| Esporta citazione | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |