Abstract

PRADA DUSSAN, Maximiliano. Francis Bacon's moral critique to philosophy. Folios [online]. 2009, n.30, pp.99-114. ISSN 0123-4870.

This paper is about Bacon's moral critique to philosophy. This critique is present in his youth work and it is developed in three levels: first, charges against philosophy because of its uselessness; second, accusations against philosophy's lack of truth and method; and, finally, charges against philosophy's lack of charity and humility. Briefly, this study will state and support two hypotheses. 1. Bacon´s reform is not restricted to a new method neither a new theory of matter; beyond this; it is a new moral position about man in relation to nature. 2. His epistemological project makes sense in the moral background.

Keywords : Francis Bacon; Seventeenth-Century philosophy; english philosophy; moral philosophy.

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