We were required to read Francis Bacon's essays for college this week and let me tell you this, it is IMPOSSIBLE to understand them without any exterior help. I thank my brilliant English teacher for turning this text into something that made sense to me. I was deeply affected and they made me think...
I know what you're thinking--"Who is this Philistine that gives a work as important as The New Atlantis only two stars?" But I swear, it's a justifiably low rating! And here's why:Firstly, unfulfilled expectations. In The New Atlantis, Bacon chose to weave his ideas into a piece of fiction, instead ...
this book had been written in 16th century , reading it is really challenge for the layman , despite the Latin phrases that Bacon used to affirm his thought . then Sir Francis Bacon did what Plato had done before , mixing knowledge with theology " The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descend...
I cannot say that I liked it, for Francis Bacon's utopian vision of society is not only ridiculous but also kind of offensive. The New Atlantians, who themselves are (obviously) learned, chaste and sophisticated, consider the Chinese 'foolish', the Africans to be the 'little foul ugly Spirits of For...
In his zeal to challenge the Aristotelian teaching of his youth, Bacon swung to other extreme. Aristotle’s deductive reasoning had dominated for centuries before Bacon. Natural science was explored through the use of syllogisms based off premises arrived at by generalized observation. Once the pr...
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but cursorily; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. Pg. 81.I’m not sure where Francis Bacon would put his ow...
I read this for a class in college. I can't remember too much about it, but I seem to remember liking some of the essays.
Okay, call me obsessive compulsive, but when I start a book I feel obligated to finish it -- no matter how boring it is -- and I finished this one, but believe me, it was very boring. I decided to read it because I had never read anything by Bacon before and on impulse I thought I might learn someth...
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