The Essays by Francis Bacon6/27/2023 ![]() The readers will discover that many of Bacon s fragments have become popular proverbs and aphorisms that still survive in the modern Anglophone wor. Today, The Essays of Francis Bacon is one of the most quoted works of the English tongue. ![]() Some even consider Bacon to be the father of the essay form which has flourished after the publication of his volume. Later researches made clear the extent of Bacons borrowings from the works of Montaigne, Aristotle and other writers, but the Essays have nevertheless remained in the highest repute.Francis Bacon (22 January 1561 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. ![]() Although Bacon s essays are often compared to the works of classic theoreticians and philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, his contemporary critics as well as modern ones insist on their special importance, value and depth. Bacon approaches the different questions from varied vantage points and provides antagonistic arguments to make his reflections take the form of intellectual debates. The present collection of essays is his first published volume It consists of a number of elaborated discussions of topics related to private and public life such as Of Love, Of Envy, Of Friendship as well as Of Empire and Of Seditions and Troubles. ![]() Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is a thinker, writer and statesman who has incomparably marked the history of England as well as the development of philosophical and scientific thinking in the whole world. ![]()
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