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Quotations Taken from the Works and Sayings of Francis Bacon 1561-1626
A list of quotations by Sir Francis Bacon. Continue reading
A Review of John Henry’s “Knowledge is Power”
As an introduction to Francis Bacon, his life, philosophy and motivation, John Henry’s Knowledge is Power: How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Inspired Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science is the best that I have read to date. As the sub-title of this slim but pithy volume intimates, Henry describes how Francis Bacon was inspired to create a method of science that would replace Aristotelianism by his interest in “Magic”, his involvement with “the Government” and by his Protestant “Apocalyptic Vision”. Continue reading
Describing Machiavel, D. P. Hurley, 1998
That Bacon has an affinity with Machiavelli I do not dispute. I do think, however, that this affinity needs to be re-examined starting from a consideration of how Bacon actually cited Machiavelli, presented him to the reader, and commented on him. I believe that the evidence will indicate shortcomings in the arguments of those who, instead of interpreting Bacon’s reading of Machiavelli as a qualified reading, ‘find him sliding deeper and deeper into positions of moral compromise and Machiavellian quicksands’. Continue reading
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