The New Atlantis...more

One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A...more

Bacon wrote this book at the age of forty-eight, four years after the publication of his Two Books of the Advancement of Learning the first important work of the series that ...more

Francis Bacon is very informative and descriptive. His points are quite bold and judicious. This is one of the great books that made Francis Bacon a great author. Please ...more

Francis Bacon offers his opinion on many different topics in these essays, ranging from life and death to love and anger. Full of wit and wisdom, the essays are the perfect ...more

Bacon's account of an ideal state reveals both practical methods and unique fantasy; a utopia, described with philosophical and rosicrucian undertones. An excellent story of ...more

When the New Organon appeared in 1620, part of a six-part programme of scientific inquiry entitled 'The Great Renewal of Learning', Francis Bacon was at the high point of his ...more

WHAT I here make public has, after a long and scrupulous inquiry, seemed to me evidently true and not unuseful to be known- particularly to those who are tainted with ...more

The first major response to the controversial series, Radical Orthodoxy. Develops a constructive radical theology from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant - a philosophy attacked ...more

This fresh orientation to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason presents his central theme, the development of his Transcendental Idealism, as a ground-breaking response to ...more

An exceptional work about the use of science as a means to improve the human condition, using the power of reasoning to find the truth. Showing how theories should be based ...more

Bacon's account of an ideal state reveals both practical methods and unique fantasy; a utopia, described with philosophical and rosicrucian undertones. An excellent story of ...more

Thomas Paine who was a dynamic philosophical presence in the American Revolution of 1776 wrote his last book in 1795 on an investigation and commentary of organized religion ...more

The influential 'Golden Chain of Homer', written or edited by Anton Josef Kirchweger, was first issued at Frankfurt and Leipzig in four German editions in 1723, 1728, 1738 and...more

Third Concept of Liberty: Judgment & Freedom in Kant & Adam Smith...more

Davies explores neglected areas of Descartes' philosophy, such as his thoughts on virtue, and questions whether or not this will call for a reassessment of Descartes' role in ...more