Stephen Gaukroger

Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This ambitious and important book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It describes how Bacon transformed the values that had underpinned philosophical culture since antiquity by rejecting the traditional idea of a philosopher as someone engaged in contemplation of the cosmos. The book explores in detail how and why Bacon attempted to transform the largely esoteric discipline of natural philosophy into a public practice through a program in which practical science provided a model that inspired many from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Stephen Gaukroger shows that this reform of natural philosophy was dependent on the creation of a new philosophical persona: a natural philosopher shaped through submission to the dictates of Baconian method. This book will be recognized as a major contribution to Baconian scholarship, of special interest to historians of early-modern philosophy, science, and ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511032349
• Artikelnr.: 38186393

Autorenporträt

Stephen Gaukroger is an internationally known and respected preacher and teacher, now senior pastor at Gold Hill, one of the largest mainstream churches in the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The nature of Bacon's project
2. Humanist models for scientia
3. The legitimation of natural philosophy
4. The shaping of the natural philosopher
5. Method as a way of pursuing natural philosophy
6. Dominion over nature
7. Conclusion.