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Francis Bacon
- The Double-Edged Life of the Philosopher and Statesman
Engelsk Paperback
Francis Bacon
- The Double-Edged Life of the Philosopher and Statesman
Engelsk Paperback

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Around the time Shakespeare inaugurated the golden age of English drama, the young Francis Bacon proposed to take "all knowledge to be my province." He soon realized the difficulty of that but in the process he posed two related questions, which he understood better than any other man of his time: Can human beings respect and obey nature, and Can they also command nature? He asked many other questions considered useless and impractical in his time but vital in ours.

After a busy career as an English parliamentarian, judge and advisor of King James I, Bacon published in his final years The Advancement of Learning, which included his New Atlantis, with its prescient vision of human accomplishments, many achieved only in the past century. The first important book of English essays, it is an investigation of civil and moral problems that continue to engage and perplex us.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780786497270
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0786497270
Udg. Dato:
11 maj 2015
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
11 maj 2015
Forfatter(e):
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