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Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
❖ Lawyer ❖ essayist ❖ Statesman ❖ Philosopher ❖ Master of English ❖ “The wisest,brightest, meanest of mankind”
3. Professional: Maxim of the Law 法律箴言 Reading on the Statute of Uses 谈使用法则
The Advancement of Learning
➢ A great tract on education ➢ According to Francis Bacon, knowledge can be divided into two kinds: one is obtained from the Divine Revelation, the other is the knowledge from the workings of human mind. ➢ 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.
❖ Balance and opposition are the most common strategies he uses to achieve both the appearance of balance and the concealment of his own opinions under the cloak of the opposing alternatives.
Baconian method
❖ Bacon’s works establish and popularize an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method. Induction implies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, observation, and testing of hypotheses.
way adopted by different people to pursue studies, and how studies exert influence over human character. Forceful and persuasive, compact and precise, Of
Novum Organum
➢A successful treatise written in Latin on methodology, which is the most impressive display of Bacon’s intellect. ➢The use of inductive method of reasoning in scientific study ➢Bacon shows the new empirical attitudes towards truth about nature and bravely challenges the medieval scholasticists
Bacon’s Works
1. Philosophical: Advancement of Learning 《论学术的进展》 Novum Organum 《新工具》
2. Literary: Essays 《随笔》 The New Atlantics (a utopian novel published in 1610) 《新大西岛》
Studies reveals to us Bacon’s mature attitude towards learning.
wk.baidu.com
Bacon’s Essays
❖ His Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature, which has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English prose.
Essays
➢ Montaigne, the first great modern essayist, is the predecessor of Bacon. The term “ essay” was borrowed from Montaigne’s Essais which appeared from 1580 to 1588. ➢ Bacon’s style has three prominent qualitiOesf:.stduidreiecstniesstsh,etemrsoesntepsospaunldar of Bacon’s 58 essays. forcefIutlnaensaslyzes what studies chiefly serve for, the different
Essay
❖Any short composition in prose that undertakes to discuss a matter, express a point of view, persuade us to accept a thesis on any subject, or simply to entertain.
❖ Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and powerfulness. And the neatness, the preciseness, the gravity, and the weightiness are the essential qualities of his writings.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
❖ Lawyer ❖ essayist ❖ Statesman ❖ Philosopher ❖ Master of English ❖ “The wisest,brightest, meanest of mankind”
3. Professional: Maxim of the Law 法律箴言 Reading on the Statute of Uses 谈使用法则
The Advancement of Learning
➢ A great tract on education ➢ According to Francis Bacon, knowledge can be divided into two kinds: one is obtained from the Divine Revelation, the other is the knowledge from the workings of human mind. ➢ 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.
❖ Balance and opposition are the most common strategies he uses to achieve both the appearance of balance and the concealment of his own opinions under the cloak of the opposing alternatives.
Baconian method
❖ Bacon’s works establish and popularize an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method. Induction implies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, observation, and testing of hypotheses.
way adopted by different people to pursue studies, and how studies exert influence over human character. Forceful and persuasive, compact and precise, Of
Novum Organum
➢A successful treatise written in Latin on methodology, which is the most impressive display of Bacon’s intellect. ➢The use of inductive method of reasoning in scientific study ➢Bacon shows the new empirical attitudes towards truth about nature and bravely challenges the medieval scholasticists
Bacon’s Works
1. Philosophical: Advancement of Learning 《论学术的进展》 Novum Organum 《新工具》
2. Literary: Essays 《随笔》 The New Atlantics (a utopian novel published in 1610) 《新大西岛》
Studies reveals to us Bacon’s mature attitude towards learning.
wk.baidu.com
Bacon’s Essays
❖ His Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature, which has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English prose.
Essays
➢ Montaigne, the first great modern essayist, is the predecessor of Bacon. The term “ essay” was borrowed from Montaigne’s Essais which appeared from 1580 to 1588. ➢ Bacon’s style has three prominent qualitiOesf:.stduidreiecstniesstsh,etemrsoesntepsospaunldar of Bacon’s 58 essays. forcefIutlnaensaslyzes what studies chiefly serve for, the different
Essay
❖Any short composition in prose that undertakes to discuss a matter, express a point of view, persuade us to accept a thesis on any subject, or simply to entertain.
❖ Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and powerfulness. And the neatness, the preciseness, the gravity, and the weightiness are the essential qualities of his writings.