Novum Organum
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- anglès
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- Obra completa
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- ~96.200 paraules · 457 passatges
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- APAFrancis Bacon. (n.d.). Novum organum or, True suggestions for the interpretation of nature [Novum Organum]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/francis-bacon/novum-organum-or-true-suggestions-for-the-interpretation-of-nature
- MLAFrancis Bacon. Novum organum or, True suggestions for the interpretation of nature [Novum Organum]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/francis-bacon/novum-organum-or-true-suggestions-for-the-interpretation-of-nature.
- ChicagoFrancis Bacon. Novum organum or, True suggestions for the interpretation of nature [Novum Organum]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/francis-bacon/novum-organum-or-true-suggestions-for-the-interpretation-of-nature.
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De què tracta
La proposta d'un mètode nou per conèixer la natura: partir de l'observació i pujar a poc a poc cap a les lleis, en comptes de deduir-ho tot de principis heretats.
Context i història
Publicat el 1620 com a segona part de la Instauratio magna, un projecte de sis parts que Bacon no va acabar mai. El títol es contraposa a l'Organon d'Aristòtil, que hi és tractat com l'obstacle a superar. La part més llegida són els quatre «ídols» —de la tribu, de la caverna, del mercat i del teatre—: les maneres típiques com la ment humana s'enganya sola.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
LIV. Some men become attached to particular sciences and contemplations, either from supposing themselves the authors and inventors of them, or from having bestowed the greatest pains upon such subjects, and thus become most habituated to them.[22] If men of this description apply themselves to philosophy and contemplations of a universal nature, they wrest and corrupt them by their preconceived fancies, of which Aristotle affords us a single instance, who made his natural philosophy completely subservient to his logic, and thus rendered it little more than useless and disputatious. The chemists, again, have formed a fanciful philosophy with the most confined views, from a few experiments of the furnace. Gilbert,[23] too, having employed himself most assiduously in the consideration of the magnet, immediately established a system of philosophy to coincide with his favorite pursuit. LV. The greatest and, perhaps, radical distinction between different men’s dispositions for philosophy and the sciences is this, that some are more vigorous and active in observing the differences of things, others in observing their resemblances; for a steady and acute disposition can fix its thoughts, and dwell upon and adhere to a point, through all the refinements of differences, but those that are sublime and discursive recognize and compare even the most delicate and general resemblances; each of them readily falls into excess, by catching either at nice distinctions or shadows of resemblance. LVI. Some dispositions evince an unbounded admiration of antiquity, others eagerly embrace novelty, and but few can preserve the just medium, so as neither to tear up what the ancients have correctly laid down, nor to despise the just innovations of the moderns.…