Rhetoric and the Familiar examines the writing and oratory of Francis Bacon and John Donne from the perspective of the faculty psychology they both inherited. Both writers inherited the resources of ...the classical rhetorical tradition through their university education. The book traces, from within that tradition, the sources of Bacon and Donne’s ideas about the processes of mental image making, reasoning, and passionate feeling. It analyzes how knowledge about those mental processes underlies the rhetorical planning of texts by Bacon, such as New Atlantis, Essayes or Counsels, Novum Organum, and the parliamentary speeches, and of texts by Donne such as the Verse Letters, Essayes in Divinity, Holy Sonnets, and the sermons. The book argues that their rhetorical practices reflect a common appropriation of ideas about mental process from faculty psychology, and that they deploy it in divergent ways depending on their rhetorical contexts. It demonstrates the vital importance, in early modern thinking about rhetoric, of considering what familiar remembered material will occur to a given audience, how that differs according to context, and the problems the familiar entails.
A homenagem a Francis Bacon com que Vico abre o De ratione (1709) fez passar por alto o teor da crítica que Vico dirige a Bacon nessa obra. No meu artigo, sustenta-se que, diferentemente das recentes ...polêmicas que tiveram por objeto a obra baconiana, a vexatio naturae estigmatizada por Vico não é tanto motivada pela objeção à violência exercida sobre a natureza, mas visa sobretudo a negar a plausibilidade mesma dos desiderata baconianos e a invalidar o projeto de regnum hominis, recorrendo a fórmulas precisas dos textos baconianos. Dessa crítica dirigida a Francis Bacon, não aparecem outros ecos nas posteriores obras de Vico. Pelo contrário, no De mente heroica (1732), Vico subscreve plenamente a exaltação baconiana da noção heroica de conhecimento.
This study re-evaluates the religious beliefs of Francis Bacon and the role which his theology played in the development of his program for the reform of learning and the natural sciences, the Great ...Instauration. Bacon's Instauration writings are saturated with theological statements and Biblical references which inform and explain his program, yet this aspect of his writings has received little attention. Previous considerations of Bacon's religion have been drawn from a fairly short list of his published writings. Consequently, Bacon has been portrayed as everything from an atheist to a Puritan; scholarly consensus is lacking. This book argues that by considering the historical context of Bacon's society, and his conversion from Puritanism to anti-Calvinism as a young man, his own theology can be brought into clearer focus, and his philosophy more properly understood. After leaving his mother's household, Bacon underwent a transformation of belief which led him away from his mother's Calvinism and toward the writings of the ancient Church Fathers, particularly Irenaeus of Lyon. Bacon's theology increasingly came to reflect the theological interests of his friend and editor Lancelot Andrewes. The patristic turn of Bacon's belief in the last two decades of the reign of Elizabeth significantly affected the development of his philosophical program which was produced in the first two decades of the Stuart era. This study then examines the theology present in the Instauration writings themselves and concludes with a consideration of the effect which Bacon's theology had on the subsequent direction of empirical science and natural theology in the English context. In so doing it not only offers a new perspective on Bacon, but will serve as a contribution toward a better understanding of the religious context of, and motivations behind, empirical science in early modern England.
Robert P. Crease es estadounidense de nacimiento, filósofo y director del departamento de filosofía en la Stony Brook University en New York. Es autor de diversos libros relacionados al avance de la ...ciencia, por ello es considerado uno de los actuales historiadores de la ciencia. Desde siempre se ha preocupado por difundir el respeto y la autoridad de la ciencia, de tal forma que sea de utilidad para cada país. El estilo sensibilizador del autor en cada capítulo despierta el interés para terminar de leer todo el libro, asimismo se evidencia un profundo interés del autor por defender y demostrar la autoridad det la ciencia en todas sus areas.
The concept of "the body without organs" takes up a great part of the oeuvre of Deleuze and Guattari. Yet, it is difficult to answer their question-"How do you make yourself a body without ...organs?"-or to understand their answer. In this paper I propose that the body without organs is an ethical concept. To support this assertion, I relate, especially, Deleuze's thought on the Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård's autofictive project, My Struggle, suggesting that My Struggle can be read as a body without organs. By doing so, I aim at two things: first, to illustrate a possible application of Deleuze's ethic, and second, to show how such an ethic may guide us regarding what we ought to do.
La necesidad de analizar la obra Novum Organum (Bacon, 1949) es crucial para comprender los giros epistemológicos acontecidos en la historia del pensamiento. El experimentalismo de Francis Bacon es, ...en gran medida, el responsable de esta nueva propuesta. Bacon cambia la interpretación fundamentalista del mundo griego que abogaba por una actitud contemplativa de la verdad y con el único propósito de entender el mundo. En nuestro estudio veremos que Bacon tiene una inclinación especial por huir de los fundamentos con bases metafísicas, y privilegia en parte lo que Dewey llama pragmatismo (1954). Sin embargo, podremos también certificar que Bacon no es concluyente en su filosofía respecto de un abandono decidido de los constructos metafísicos.
Given the plausibility of the connection between these symptoms, the increasing number of cases nationwide, and the patients' vaping behaviours, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have ...warned that there might be a link to street-bought, illegal products, and advised that people should only buy vaping paraphernalia from official outlets and seek immediate medical attention if they have any health concerns. Reflecting on the evidence so far, although a definitive cause-and-effect association has yet to be proven, the rising frequency of lung disease in e-cigarette users must now trigger a far higher concern level for policy makers—particularly because the connection between many of these lung conditions and future development of lung cancer is so well established. Ironically, the USA remains one of the few nations worldwide that has yet to ratify the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, so even with an extended remit, the Framework Convention could not be used to help bolster efforts by US authorities and health practitioners.
An early printing of an anonymous tract by Francis Bacon is discussed. On December 5, 1603, Valentine Simmes was ordered to bring in thirty books and ballads that he had printed without a license. ...The ballads were likely suppressed due to their political sensitivity, as they were about the conspirators of the alleged Bye Plot to kidnap King James. However, there is speculation that Thomas Powell's book, "A Welch Bayte to spare Prouender, " contains a tract believed to be the work of Francis Bacon. Powell's book includes a letter discussing Queen Elizabeth's religious policies, which is also found in other manuscripts attributed to Bacon. It is possible that Bacon may have been involved in suppressing Powell's book, as he had a history of intervening to prevent the publication of his own writings. The Powell printing of the letter provides a relatively early and complete version of the text, shedding light on its earlier dissemination.
In this paper, I ask whether Francis Bacon constitutes a revealing exception to the modern predilection for 'system.' First, I consider evidence for reading Bacon as a philosopher strongly attracted ...toward the ideal of system. Second, I show how reflecting on Bacon's philosophical practice can motivate an 'anti-system' reading of his texts. In considering the small number of works in which Bacon explicitly discusses 'system' under that name (in particular, the Descriptio globi intellectualis), I clarify what is and is not meant by 'philosophical system' as distinct from other ideas of system (e.g. 'system of the heavens'). Third, I draw from the Temporis Masculus Partum and Novum Organum to argue that Bacon's doctrine of the 'idols of the mind' amounts to a thoroughgoing critique of system in philosophy. Fourth, I show how and why Bacon deploys the aphoristic form in Novum Organum as an alternative to system. I conclude by suggesting some ways in which an 'anti-system' reading of Bacon has the power to enhance our appreciation of other early modern authors who write philosophy without pretensions to system.
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