Francis Bacon’s Advancement of Learning

Essay-summary of Francis Bacon’s 1605 work The Advancement of Learning. Based on an article by Jean Faurot, see below for bibliographic info. Bacon playlist: 0:00 Two criticisms of his contemporaries 1:25 Criticisms of their scholarship 4:56 Classification of the sciences 5:17 Three divisions of human learning 5:41 First Philosophy 6:17 Relation between physics & metaphysics 7:33 Rejects Aristotle for Democritus 8:06 Bacon’s Anthropocentrism/Humanism 8:53 True end of knowledge is benefit of mankind 9:43 On the threshhold of a new age #Philosophy #FrancisBacon #AdvancementOfLearning Source: Article by Jean Faurot in World Philosophy, Essay-Reviews of 225 Major Works, ed. Frank N. Magill, Salem Press 1961, vol 2, pages 796-799. ISBN 0-89356-327-7 Buy on Amazon: Selected Philosophical Works of Bacon, The Major Works