Francis Bacon's Natural History and Civil History: A Comparative Survey
The aim of this paper is to offer a comparative survey of Bacon's theory and practice of natural history and of civil history, particularly centered on their relationship to natural philosophy and human philosophy. I will try to show that the obvious differences concerning their subject matter...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación |
| Repositorio: | Memoria Académica (UNLP-FAHCE) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar:snrd:Jpr15828 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/art_revistas/pr.15828/pr.15828.pdf |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Filosofía Causes Civil history Civil philosophy Francis Bacon Historiography Moral philosophy Natural history Natural philosophy Precepts |
| Sumario: | The aim of this paper is to offer a comparative survey of Bacon's theory and practice of natural history and of civil history, particularly centered on their relationship to natural philosophy and human philosophy. I will try to show that the obvious differences concerning their subject matter encompass a number of less obvious methodological and philosophical assumptions which reveal a significant practical and con ceptual convergence of the two fields. Causes or axioms are prescribed as the theoretical end-products of natural history, whereas precepts are envisaged as the speculative outcomes derived from perfect civil history. In spite of this difference, causes and precepts are thought to enable effective action in order to change the state of nature and of man, respectively. For that reason a number of common patterns are to be found in Bacon's theory and practice of natural and civil history. |
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