„They who have presumed to dogmatize on nature, as on some well investigated subject, either from self-conceit or arrogance, and in the professorial style, have inflicted the greatest injury on philosophy and learning.“ (p. 7) #FrancisBacon #nature
Schlagwort-Archive: nature
Nancy: La loi
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„La loi n’est pas plaisante, et le plaisir n’est pas obligé: le plaisir de la loi est, dans la loi même, en excès sur la nature obligeante de la loi.“ (p. 26)
Power over Nature
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„We must next, however, proceed to the supports and corrections of induction, and thence to concretes, the latent process, and latent conformations, and the other matters, which we have enumerated in their order in the twenty-first aphorism, in order that, like good and faithful guardians, we may yield up their fortune to mankind upon the emancipation and majority of their understanding; from which must necessarily follow an improvement of their estate, and an increase of their power over nature.“ (p. 292) #FrancisBacon #PowerOverNature
Knowledge and Human Power
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„Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect; for nature is only subdued by submission, and that which in contemplative philosophy corresponds with the cause in practical science becomes the rule.“ (p. 15) #FrancisBacon #knowledge #humanpower #nature #submission