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francis-bacon解析
Basic Information
Francis Bacon (15611626) ,a representative of the Renaissance in England ,is a well-known philosopher ,scientist and essayist,one of the leading figures in natural philosophy and in the field of scientific methodology in the period of transition from the Renaissance to the early modern era.
Works
Essays 《论说文》
The Advancement of Learning 《知识的 进步》
Novum Organum 《 新工具》
Essays 《论说文》
The first example of that genre in Englsh literature.
An important landmark in the development of English prose.
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar.
Poetry
Of Studies
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use, but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Novum Organum 《新工具》
A successful treatise written in Latin on methodology.
The argument is for the use of inductive method of reasoning in scientific study .
They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Basic Information
As a lawyer, member of Parliament,and Queen's Counsel,Bacon wrote on the questions of law,state and religion,as well as on contemporary politics;but he also published texts in which he speculated on possible conceptions of society,and he pondered questions of ethics even in his works on natural philosophy .
For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
According to Bacon,man's understanding consists of three parts:history to man's memory,poetry to man's imagination and creation,and philosophy to man's reason.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
源自文库
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
The Advancement of Learning 《知 识的进步》
A great book on education
He divides knowledge into two kinds.One is the knowledge obtained from the Divine Revelation;the other is the knowledge from the workings of human mind.
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