Francis Bacon: The Double-Edged Life of the Philosopher and Statesman
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (791 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786497270 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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He lives in Northborough, Massachusetts. Robert P. Ellis is a retired English professor from Worcester State University.
About the AuthorRobert P. He lives in Northborough, Massachusetts. . Ellis is a retired English professor from Worcester State University
A solid contribution J. Woznicki As the author suggests in his preface, this is not a full-scale biography, but a "smaller book" for the "common reader" and, as such, it is quite good. The volume deftly and uniquely trains the reader's focus on the interrelations between Bacon's thoughts as a thinker and a politician and chooses interesting and relevant information to
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. The first important book of English essays, it is an investigation of civil and moral problems that continue to engage and perplex us.. After a busy career as an English parliamentarian, judge and advisor of King James I, Bacon published in his final years The Advancement