Francis Bacon : discovery and the art of discourse

Francis Bacon : discovery and the art of discourse /

By modern standards Bacon's writings are striking in their range and diversity, and they are too often considered a separate specialist concerns in isolation from each other. Dr Jardine finds a unifying principle in Bacon's preoccupation with 'method', the evaluation and organisa...

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Main Author: Jardine, Lisa (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1974.
Subjects:
Bacon, Francis, > 1561-1626 > Criticism and interpretation.
Bacon, Francis, > 1561-1626.
Bacon, Francis, > (1561-1626)
1600-1699
Philosophy, English > 17th century > History and criticism.
Philosophers, Modern > Europe > Biography.
Philosophy, Modern > History and criticism.
Philosophers, Modern.
Philosophy, English.
Philosophy, Modern.
Europe.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Dialectic and method in the sixteenth century
  • An English dialectical controversy
  • Bacon's response to the dialectical tradition
  • Bacon's theory of knowledge
  • The goal of the interpretation of nature
  • The interpretation of nature
  • Analogy and generalisation in ethics and civics
  • Methods of communication
  • Parable
  • Exempla
  • Bacon's view of rhetoric
  • The method of Bacon's essays.

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