Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy
2001
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This ambitious and important book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It describes how Bacon transformed the values that had underpinned philosophical culture since antiquity by rejecting the traditional idea of a philosopher as someone engaged in contemplation of the cosmos. The book 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 provided a model that inspired many from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Stephen Gaukroger shows that this reform of natural philosophy was dependent on the creation of a new philosophical persona: a natural philosopher shaped through submission to the dictates of Baconian method. This book will be recognized as a major contribution to Baconian scholarship, of special interest to historians of early-modern philosophy, science, and ideas.
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Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Gaukroger, Stephen |
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Veröffentlichung: | 2001 |
Medientyp: | E-Book |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-80154-6 (print) ; 978-0-511-01778-0 (electronic) |
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