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FRANCIS BACON: FUNDAMENTELE TEOLOGICE ALE FILOSOFIEI NATURALE
FRANCIS BACON THE THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY

Author(s): Laura Georgescu
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: Francis Bacon; theological foundations; epistemology; Valerius Terminus; fundamente teologice; epistemologie; Valerius Terminus

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I attempt to show that Bacon’s interpretation of the scriptural stories of the Creation and Fall of man provides the conditions of possibility for the knowledge of nature. I will show that Bacon’s references to these Biblical narratives unveil important philosophical assumptions related to what kind of universe is out there and what type of knowledge of the world the human agent can experience.

  • Issue Year: VI/2010
  • Issue No: 04 (23)
  • Page Range: 74-87
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English
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