Cohen, Jason E. (Author)
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Lezra, Jacques
Edition Details: Advisor: Lezra, Jacques
Physical Details: 292 pp.
Language: English
***** This study argues that Francis Bacon's political and natural thought shows how the "human" emerges as a contested term in early modern English literature. It describes the procedures of secularization and codification that support Bacon's work on human agency, and shows that they are associated, on the one hand, with the empirical study of nature, and on the other hand, with the development of new criteria for political judgment based on reason and experience. Bacon's focus on civil and natural life, this dissertation argues, directed and depended upon his thought about human progress; his work responded to the limits that social and physical surroundings imposed on rational thought by creating methods for action in each area, reinforcing the mutual pursuits of his epistemological and ethical programs by means of a shared conception of human progress, and a shared conception of sociality built upon it. With chapters that investigate Bacon's major prose tracts including his treatises on learning, fictional utopia, theological profession, natural history, and natural philosophy, the present study addresses the wide range of approaches Bacon followed in his search for truth and the improvement of the human condition. *****
...MoreDescription Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 69/09 (2009). Pub. no. AAT 3327784.
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