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she sought support for her rationalism not only in self-evident visible truths, but also in the data of experience. But if she as a philosopher of Bacon, she strove to study the very really through experience and observation, then basically methodology of reality laid down a new principle, inappropriateaccording to the methods of medieval scientists. This principle is first creating a natural picture of the world, so diverse in its manifestations, so difficult to reduce, in Bekov’s opinion, to a few axomas, demanded the study of particular sta. If such a principle is applied to the study of man in society, which is what the closest followers of the English did -

Russian philosopher, then the starting point of such a study has already been there will not be a “political animal”, but an “animal” in political tic community, i.e., in the lap of nature. Only by imagining such an animal, in the opinion of legal philosophers, will one become possible to explain the rights, responsibilities and form of cohabitation properties of “political animals”.

Bacon outlined the path for the development of ETHICS with a dotted line and politics in the indicated direction And, infected with the spirit homM v'ka, in which the main demanding desire

Mlesh was able to outline the general, having previously studied the particulars,

hastened to write his unfinished fantasy Atlantis. It combines the results of scientific assumptions,

to satisfy the philosophical imagination of the future Vespip Poshiiz—t. that is, the subject of his sincere lovelashy. However, discarding the whole fantastic shell of “bopi for the sweat”, we see in it the morbid problem of the hostel, destroyed by human means. But didn’t this mean putting the person and his promise at the forefront instead of heteronomous, ethic and theocratic ideals.

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Despite his idealism and rationalism, Descartes is still Bacon's comrade-in-arms in conquering the strongholds of individualism in the following philosophy. states. To find for the individual mind a way of cognizing the truth besides the stereotyped branches of scholasticism is the same goal of the philosophical methodologist Descartes. To explain the human personality and its motive forces solely by the laws of nature, and to know the laws of nature solely by one’s own reason, without being interested in what predecessors thought on these issues - a view from which Descartes did not deviate, but the strength of which he often tried to weaken with reservations about his complete agreement with religion, despite the proclaimed break with tradition. The reason for this was the Catholic counter-revolution), Descartes admitted that he was not a stranger to the glory of an innovator, but he never forgot about the persecution of those who open new paths by reactionaries. Therefore, he prudently used “evasions” to deflect suspicions about the danger of the thoughts he preached 2), which, however, he did not always succeed.

Even where he tries to connect his methodology with a higher religious idea, this idea has the character of a concession to the spirit of the time, which is an organic part of his methodological rationalism. Characterizing the idea of ​​God with traditional and hypothetical features, Descartes admits that the content given by these features of the ideal is not

1) In this era, out of fear of liability, it was customary to publish the works of free-thinking authors under awkward titles in order to avert the attention of Catholic censorship. So, for example, in Franchi's works. Spinoza's title was "Ga s]ee 4a Zazhsevaate".

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Re may be the fruit of conscious deception on the part of the creator, nature for the human mind "). Otherwise, one would have to admit that the human mind is not the only and relatively perfect instrument for achieving truth °). But in an essay dating back to the last years of Descartes’ life, entitled: “seeking truth with the natural light of reason exclusively from oneself, without the help of religions and school philosopher,” the thinker seems to be looking for a break with the traditional theory of knowledge and strengthens himself on the idea of the autocracy of the human mind, which is already being prepared in “O15coshgz@e1ashefo@e” on the basis of 3) a critical attitude and aversion to school wisdom.

Is the mind not content with its nature and does not find

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Mentality constitutes the very essence of human personality: the source of knowledge. This is the meaning of Descartes, who says that he abandoned the old science and began to seek knowledge only in himself and in the great books of the world 6). Approximately