フランシス・ベイコンと近代初期哲学の変容 Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy

Gaukroger, Stephen

Cambridge University Press（2001/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 262 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521805360
• DDC分類 192

基本説明

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 man from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

Full Description

This ambitious and important book, first published in 2001, 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.

Contents

1. The nature of Bacon's project; 2. Humanist models for scientia; 3. The legitimation of natural philosophy; 4. The shaping of the natural philosopher; 5. Method as a way of pursuing natural philosophy; 6. Dominion over nature; 7. Conclusion.