The Advancement of LearningPaul Dry Books, 1. mars 2001 - 263 sider Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning (1605) is considered the first major philosophical book written in English. In it, Bacon is concerned with scientific learning: the current state of knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities. Here Bacon sets forth the first account of science as intended for "the relief of man's estate." |
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... questions arose about the contribution of modern science to genuine human progress. Rather than unambiguous forces for good, science and technology had served revolutionary and totalitarian madness such as the world had never seen ...
... questions that for centuries, at least until recently, were mostly taken for granted. Suppose it is true that the old, teleological conception of nature is false and that things have no special purposes or ends. If so, then does it ...
... questions. And consider them he did, in the array of writings on philosophy, science, politics, history, and morality ... question, in a profound and eloquent way, the ultimate value of science and technological progress. He invites the ...
... question which Job asked of his friends: Will you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him?21 For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes: and if they would have it otherwise believed, it ...
... question, many vacant times of leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns of business (except he be either tedious and of no dispatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be better done by others) ...