Bacon and the politics of the prudential imagination.(Francis Bacon )

From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

In book 7 of his De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum (1623), Francis Bacon conducts a sustained inquiry into the practice of government, arguing, approximately midway through, that images of friendship and family can be examined not as models for institutional structures or policies "but as to the framing and predisposing of the minds of particular persons towards the preservation of those bonds of society." (1) The distinction between the arrangement of institutions and the framing of human minds may be a subtle point, but it is also an important one, especially for scholars ...

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