Novum organum
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- inglés
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- Obra completa
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- ~96.200 palabras · 457 pasajes
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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/es/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/es/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/es/works/francis-bacon/novum-organum-or-true-suggestions-for-the-interpretation-of-nature.
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De qué trata
La propuesta de un método nuevo para conocer la naturaleza: partir de la observación y subir poco a poco hacia las leyes, en vez de deducirlo todo de principios heredados.
Contexto e historia
Publicado en 1620 como segunda parte de la Instauratio magna, un proyecto de seis partes que Bacon nunca terminó. El título se contrapone al Organon de Aristóteles, tratado aquí como el obstáculo a superar. La parte más leída son los cuatro «ídolos» —de la tribu, de la caverna, del mercado y del teatro—: los modos típicos en que la mente humana se engaña a sí misma.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra 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.…