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De la sabiduría egoísta

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Los célebres escritos de Francis Bacon sobre temas que van desde la ira y la ambición, al matrimonio, la riqueza, la envidia, el imperio o la sabiduría, lo consagraron como uno de los padres fundadores del pensamiento científico moderno, con su rechazo de

112 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2014

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Francis Bacon

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Not to confuse with collateral descendant and artist Francis Bacon

English philosopher, essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman Francis Bacon, first viscount Saint Albans, in writings, which include The Advancement of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), proposed a theory of scientific knowledge, based on observation and experiment, which people came as the inductive method.

A Baconian follows the doctrines of the philosopher Francis Bacon or believes in the theory of, relating to, or characteristic of his works or thought that he authored the plays, attributed to William Shakespeare.

This Queen's Counsel, an orator, authored. He served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, his works extremely influenced especially as advocate and practitioner during the revolution.

People called Bacon the creator of empiricism. His works established and popularized simple Baconian inquiry, often called. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all natural things marked a new turn in much of the rhetorical framework, which still surrounds proper conceptions today.

Bacon received a knighthood in 1603, and people created him baron Verulam in 1618 and promoted him in 1621.

Ideas of Bacon in the 1630s and 1650s influenced scholars; Sir Thomas Browne in his Encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646–72) frequently adheres to an approach to his inquiries. During the Restoration, the royal society founded under Charles II in 1660, commonly invoked Bacon as a guiding spirit.

During the 18th-century Enlightenment of France, criticism of the ancien regime associated more influential non-metaphysical approach of Bacon than the dualism of his French contemporary René Descartes. In 1733, Voltaire "introduced him as the ''father," a widespread understanding before 1750, to a French audience.

In the 19th century, William Whewell revived and developed his emphasis. People reputed him as the "father."

Because Bacon introduced the influence behind the dawning of the Industrial age in England, people also consider him. In works, Bacon,

"the explanation of which things, and of the true relation between the nature of things and the nature of the mind, is as the strewing and decoration of the bridal chamber of the mind and the universe, out of which marriage let us hope there may spring helps to man, and a line and race of inventions that may in some degree subdue and overcome the necessities and miseries of humanity,"


meaning he expected that through the understanding of use of mechanics, society creates more inventions that to an extent solves the problems. This idea, found in medieval ages, changed the course in history to inventive that eventually led to the mechanical inventions that made possible the Industrial Revolutions of the following centuries.

He also a long treatise on Medicine, History of Life and Death , with the natural prolongation.

For the historian William Hepworth Dixon of biographers, so great influence of Bacon in modern world proceeds to owe to who rides in a train, sends a telegram, follows a steam plough, sits in an easy chair, crosses the channel or the Atlantic, eats a good dinner, enjoys a beautiful garden, or undergoes a painless surgical operation

Francis Bacon's left the vast and varied that dispaly and that divided in three great branches:

Works present his ideas for an universal reform into the use of the improvement.

In literary works, he presents his morals.

Works reform in law.

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July 25, 2022
El libro trata diferentes asuntos como la astucia, la ambición o los estudios. La lectura es amena y perfecta para momentos en los que tienes poco tiempo para leer, ya que los capítulos tienen alrededor de 2 páginas solo.

Hay capítulos que dada la distancia temporal con el autor no se puede empatizar con ellos y al ser capítulos tan cortos y por ende superficiales no ofrecen gran cosa al lector, también hay 1 o 2 que sinceramente leí en diagonal porque no interpelan a la mayoría de personas, como me paso con el capitulo "De los jardines".

Sin embargo hay algunos capítulos que se sienten como si se hubieran escrito a día de hoy y no hace 4 siglos e inducen al lector a reflexionar sobre estos temas.

Creo que este libro está hecho para lo que dice su propia cita: "Léase no para contradecir o impugnar ni para creer o dar por admitido, ni para encontrar tema de charla y conversación, sino para sopesar y considerar. "
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December 17, 2021
Una decepción, más de la edición en si que de los ensayos de Francis Bacon, que al final han resultado agradables y superficialmente interesantes. Seguramente con un par de lecturas complementarias e introductorias al autor una relectura del libro resulte mucho más satisfactoria.

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Ideas que han cambiado el mundo
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January 2, 2023
Reflexiones muy acertadas, fáciles de leer, y bellas, de cosas en su mayoría cotidianas.
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