Philosophy 47 Flashcards
What did Francis Bacon proclaim?
The birth of a new era in which natural science would bring man a material redemption to accompany his spiritual progress toward the Christian millennium
What have been Philosophy’s three identities?
Classical, medieval, and modern
What criticism of Aristotle and Plato is presented by Bacon?
Depended too heavily on deduction for their knowledge
What must be done to find nature’s true order?
The mind must be purified of all of its internal obstacles, purged of its habitual tendencies
What must not be assumed?
That the world was divinely permeated and ordered in a manner directly accessible to the human mind
If Bacon wasn’t a philosopher or scientist, what was he?
He was a potent intermediary whose rhetorical power and visionary ideal persuaded future generations to fulfill his revolutionary program
