Thursday, 5 August, 2022
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Here I am going to write a blog on work of Francis Bacon. Which is assigned by Dilip Barad sir.
• Write in brief about Chaucer or Edmund Spencer or Ben Jonson or Francis Bacon or on any of their works.
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• Francis Bacon :
• About the author :
Francis Bacon was an English philosopher and as lord chancellor of England. Francis Bacon was born into a prominent wealthy family in London, England, on January 22, 1561. He was the family’s youngest son.
Bacon’s father was Sir Nicholas Bacon, who held the powerful government position of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
His mother was Anne Cooke, a scholar, translator, and holder of strong Puritan beliefs. She tried hard to ensure her children were as well-educated and as puritanical as she was. He was born on 22 January 1561 at London. Bacon was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University. Bacon’s education reflected his upper-class background. He was tutored at home until, aged 12, he entered the University of Cambridge, where he was again tutored privately. His lessons were conducted entirely in Latin, focusing on arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, grammar, music theory, logic, and rhetoric.
Grammar, logic, and rhetoric were considered the most important subjects. Bacon earned a reputation as a serious boy who worked hard. He became known as a liberate minded reformer, eager to amend and simplicity the law. Though a friend of the crown he opposed feudal privileges and dictalorial power. He spoke against religious persecution. Closer constitutional ties, he believed, would bring greater peace and strength to these countries on 9 April 1626 Francis Bacon died at London.
• About his work :
Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statemen, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord chancellor of England.
Francis bacon's philosophy is displayed in the vast and varied writing he left, which might be divided into three great branches:
1) Scientific works
2) Religious and Literary works
3) Juradical works
So let's will discuss about all 3 branches in deeply :-
1) scientific works :-
In which his ideas for a universal reform of knowledge into scientific methodology and the improvement of mankind's state using the scientific method are presented.
∆ The Great Instauration :
Francis Bacon is considered one of the fathers of modern science. He proposed, at his time, a great reformation of all process of knowledge for the advancement of learning divine and human. He called it Instauratio Magna (The Great Instauration -the action of restoring or renewing something). Bacon planned his Great Instauration in imitation of the Divine Work – the Work of the Six Days of Creation, as defined in the Bible, leading to the Seventh Day of Rest or Sabbath in which Adam's dominion over creation would be restored,[1][page needed] thus dividing the great reformation in six parts:
1) Partitions of the Sciences
2) New Method
3) Natural History
4) Ladder of the Intellect
5) Anticipations of the Second Philosophy
6) The Second Philosophy or Active Science
In the book The great Instauration, he also gave some admonitions regarding the ends and purpose of science. He said that man should confine the sense within the limits of duty in respect to things divine. Another admonition was concerning the ends of science : that mankind should seek knowledge not for pleasure, contention, superiority over others, profit, fame or power, but for the benefit and use of life and that they perfect and govern it in charity.
∆ Novum Organum :
The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title is a reference to Aristotle's work Organum, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism, and is the second part of his Instauration.Bacon’s most significant work, Novum Organum, described what came to be called the Baconian Method of science. It was part of his Instauratio Magna series of books.
The book is divided into two parts, the first part being called "On the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man", and the second "On the Interpretation of Nature, or the Reign of Man".
∆ Advancement of Learning :
In this work, which is divided into two books, Bacon starts giving philosophical, civic and religious arguments for the engaging in the aim of advancing learning. In the second book, Bacon analyses the state of the sciences of his day, stating what was being done incorrectly, what should be bettered, in which way should they be advanced.
∆ Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature :
In this work of 1603, an argument for the progress of knowledge, Bacon considers the moral, religious and philosophical implications and requirements for the advancement of learning and the development of science. Although not as well known as other works such as Novum Organum and Advancement of Learning, this work's importance in Bacon's thought resides in the fact that it was the first of his scientific writings.
∆ History of Life and Death :
History of Life and Death[19] is a treatise on medicine, with observations natural and experimental for the prolonging of life.
He opens, in the Preface, stating his hope and desire that the work would contribute to the common good, and that through it the physicians would become "instruments and dispensers of God's power and mercy in prolonging and renewing the life of man".
2) Religious and Literary works :-
In which he presents his moral philosophy and technology meditations.
∆ The New Atlantis :
In 1623, Bacon expressed his aspirations and ideals in New Atlantis. Released in 1627, this was his creation of an ideal land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendor, piety and public spirit" were the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of Bensalem. The name "Bensalem" means "Son of Peace",[b] having obvious resemblance with "Bethlehem" (birthplace of Jesus), and is referred to as "God's bosom, a land unknown", in the last page of the work.
∆ Essays :
Bacon's Essays were first published in 1597 as Essays Religious Meditation. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed. There were only ten essays in this version, relatively aphoristic and brief in style. A much-enlarged second edition appeared in 1612, with 38 essays.
∆ The Wisdom of the Ancients :-
The Wisdom of the Ancients is a book written by Bacon in 1609, and published in Latin, in which he claims playfully to unveil the hidden meanings and teachings behind ancient Greek fables. The book opens with two dedications:
1) The Earl of Salisbury,
2) The University of Cambridge.
∆ Masculine Birth of Time :-
The Masculine Birth of Time, a posthumously published text, Bacon first writes about the relationship between science and religion.
3) Juradical works :-
In which his reforms in English Love are proposal.Bacon was also a jurist by profession, having written some works for the reform of English Law.
His most important juridical works are: The Elements of the Common Laws of England, Maxims of the Law, Cases of Treason, The Learned Reading of Sir Francis Bacon upon the Statute of Uses.
“The corruption of philosophy by the mixing of it up with superstition and theology, is of a much wider extent, and is most injurious to it both as a whole and in parts.”
FRANCIS BACON
Novum Organum, 1620
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