In this passage, in comparison with previous quotations on Bacon, it is clear to the reader, on the one hand, a tendency towards some independence for ethics, supported by the philosopher’s entire worldview, on the other, his constant and timid glance at what gave the tone to his life. More. Another methodologist, Descartes, speaks more characteristically and frankly, as we will see below, on this same issue.
See also similar arguments of Bacon in Moua A{api5.).
2) See Zegtopes I4e!ez HUT. Re Ashshe!zsho and HUP Be zpregzyyope (ed. Gey4ep'a 1641).
—- 904 something is human. Human: character, affects, studied by an ethologist to help a moralist find means for “sibigae apitae.”
Having given a whole series of methodological highlights in the field of ethics, Bacon almost did not develop ethics from the point of view of its content, except for aphorisms of a practical nature.
Bacon also did little to develop policies, which theoretically the state chancellor did not like to deal with. There is an indication (for example, Gl. USH. S.G. a@ teset zait 228 rubles) that he, like Descartes, was kept from such activities by considerations of caution in conflict with the existing regime. But on the other hand, one can notice that in relation to politics, Bacon stood at the same methodological point of view as in ethics. (Eg. No. USH. Ragaroia 34. ExpIsavo. 267. Oe Apotepiz EZaepiagiat).
His entire policy (three chapters of the book Oe apsshepiz Z@epnagiya) ') is a number of practical recipes °).
Its remarkable feature is that it gives the foundation practical politics Bacon looks for in the nature of things and
1) No. Begtopez Paeev.
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Considering, for example, in Zegtopes H44e]ez XXVIII Aristotle’s position: “a person in the state can only be an animal, a god,” he says that it is impossible to combine the truth and lies in a few words. Reasoning further, he says that a person seeking solitude does not live from social connections, but strives to remain alone with himself and concentrate on sublime subjects! etc. In the same naive tone, discussions are conducted about egoism, about the division between the interests of the individual and the public
(ХХШ no.), about the reformers and about innovations in the state (ХХГУ 1.).
events, as history recorded them. There is a lot of reasoning in it, from which one can conclude that, according to the demands of his mind, Bacon. continued the work of Maccaveli, if he took up his political research. He would reduce politics to a kind of naturalistic research, making history *) the object of his observation.
People need to study the manifestations of state forms as a series of real facts.
Only then can one analyze the relationship of a person to the state, its significance, role and place in the overall political picture. But again, Bacon’s merit here before political individualism is that Bacon completely rejected the relimous teleology that absorbed the political individual and made him a future citizen of the heavenly kingdom. Compared with the previous period, this merit of Bacon is outlined, when recalling the scholasticism, in this way.
When scholasticism is represented by its great representatives,
starting, for example, with Albertus Magnus, continuing with the 9th Aquinas beginning and ending with William of Ockham, she made an attempt to draw a picture of the world, including a picture of man and his relationship to the state and church, then this picture was a contiguous series of separate sketches, connected only by a common religious background. At the top of this picture one could always imagine an image of God, from which rays fell on the entire sketch.
In this picture we would look in vain for the laws of perspective and the natural connection between the depicted objects, as well as those corresponding to their real reality. These were the fruits of the relatable imagination of artists who learned to draw from old engravings depicting a person based on the orders of the church, and not on the basis of
1) B., by the way, wrote the history of Heinrich UP.
— 206 cop anatomy. The new philosopher has taken the path of analysis even when it was imbued with Rashonism. AND