Nietzsche and Modern Times: A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche
This book explores the character of modernity through a consideration of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche. It argues that Bacon and Descartes, in their positive claims for science, played the fundamental role in the development of the modern world view; that they used the Platonic art of...
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This book explores the character of modernity through a consideration of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche. It argues that Bacon and Descartes, in their positive claims for science, played the fundamental role in the development of the modern world view; that they used the Platonic art of dissimulative writing as the means to achieve their ends by making their revolutionary aims appear compatible with Christianity; and that Nietzsche understood both their ends and their means and set out to ground an antimodern world view.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780300065107 (0300065108)
Publish date: August 30th 1995
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 490
Edition language: English
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