Bacon

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Francis Bacon mainly as a starting point in the history of modern thought. He cites him in the sequence he devotes to English empiricism1. He also places him at the beginning of a period he considers essential, which he extends up to Kant2. He credits him with discrediting finalism during the Renaissance3. He draws on Hegel, who uses Bacon's name to sum up the beginning of modern science, that is, attention paid to things, which is called experience4. In a more recent session on the idea of revolution, he takes up Kant's judgement that Bacon provoked or stimulated the sudden revolution in physics5. There is no close reading of Bacon's works. He serves instead as a landmark: Dominique Pagani links him to the birth of the experimental method and to the break with final causes, and he reads him through Hegel and Kant.

1. 1#5.1 bis FaceBook Live / Questions2 Nov 2018 · 22:19
2. 2Pagani sans détours21 Sept 2019 · 1:18:39
3. 3#5.2 ter FaceBookLive / Questions (2) suite à l'Atelier #5.26 Dec 2018 · 35:19
4. 4Robert (Marthe)8 Jan 2020 · 1:18:58
5. 5De Copernic à Lénine: Révolution !28 Aug 2026 · 1:05:47

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.