| the new powers made available to man
| by technology and collaboration.The
| new kind of learning, for which Bacon
| is searching, must get away from
| touches of genius, arbitrary
| conclusions, chance, hasty summaries.
| The emphasis Iaid by Bacon on the
| social factor in scientific research
| and in determining its ends, places
| his philosophy on a radically
| different plane from that of the
| followers of Hermetic tradition."
|
| In DE SAPIENTIA VETERUM Bacon
| describes Orpheus as the mythical
| prototype of the philosopher ("Orpheus
| sive Philosophia", VI, 646-649).
|
| 1B.
| Bacon gives the following
| definition of "interpretation: "that
| reason which is elicited from facts
| by a just and methodological process,
| I call INTERPRETATION OF NATURE" (IV,
| 51). Now, this definition means a
| harsh critique of Aristotelianism,
| Scholasticism and Ramism. Michel
| Malherbe comments on this:
|
| "The main and most characteristic