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This ambitious and important 2001 book 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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Book category Knihy po anglicky Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy
• Author: Stephen (University of Sydney) Gaukroger
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262
• EAN: 9780521805360
• ISBN: 0521805368
• ID: 02086117
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 396 g
• Dimensions: 226 × 153 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. March 2001

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