The Advancement of Learning
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Francis Bacon asks what learning is for and how it can better serve human life. Addressed to the king, his two books defend the value of knowledge while examining the habits that make study unproductive. He challenges the pursuit of learning for status, argument or private gain, then surveys fields of inquiry to identify work still waiting to be done.
The range extends from logic and education to the study of the human body. In his discussion of medicine, Bacon weighs the difficulty of judging a physician's skill when recovery may depend on chance. Classical references, religious purposes and practical concerns appear side by side. Readers interested in the history of ideas will find an early attempt to organize knowledge around useful questions, with particular attention to the distance between confident claims and reliable understanding.
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- Francis Bacon
- Pages
- 148
- Language
- English
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