Some thoughts about the philosophy of Francis Bacon /part 4/

The idol of the theater - delusions of faith formed at the emotional-empirical level, naive, spontaneous faith. Also the delusions of uncritical perception of authority. Philosophy has one single argument - sufficient argumentation. References to performances can not be used as arguments in philosophy and science. Scientific induction as a means of overcoming idols. The idol of the theater implies the summation of all idols - a reference to the authority, the shared faith: "We are inclined to rely on the wisdom of one or another thinker ..."

In the second part of the New Organon, Bacon offers lines to limit misconduct. According to Bacon, traditional philosophy not only does not restrict, but creates conditions for deception. It is precisely as an attempt to overcome the fallacies that Bacon offers the inductive method.Bacon specifies that these tables have the task of showing the mechanism of induction. There is reason to point out that Bacon's critique of syllogism is only justifiable for the use of logistics. Thus, Bacon creates the impression that it is against all logistics (these deductive deductions, which are expressed by more than three judgments, are called sylogism)Bacon takes the induction as decisive, ignoring the importance of mathematics, considering it to be inconsistent to mix mathematics and physics.

Bacon exhibits a certain level of mechanicism, does not solve the unity between induction and deduction, mathematics and physics, ontology, and gonseology.For Bacon, philosophy as the most common knowledge should be primarily interested in relationships, relationships, philosophy is this knowledge that addresses the border situations "intermediate forms of development in nature".Bacon offers a classification of scientific knowledge, an attempt to align science in a lean system. It takes as a basic indicator the inductive human abilities - an indicator that tends to psychologically. It organizes scientific knowledge on three scars: 1. Memory; 2. Imagination; 3. Reason. They match: 1. History; 2. Poetry; 3. The Science of Nature, Man, and God.

In this classification, it distinguishes the place of history from natural science, on the other hand it distinguishes the role and place of physics and metaphysics (philosophy). "Sciences are like pyramids. The basis is history and experience, and therefore the foundation of natural philosophy must be the natural history. The closest to the base is physics, and on top the metaphysics "According to Bacon, the subject of philosophy is man, nature, God. Philosophy, therefore, has three basic parts - human teaching, natural philosophy and natural theology, teaching of the divine, but also the idea that theology has no place in the classification of the sciences. Launches the idea of ​​the dual truth - the truth of science and the truth of religious consciousness must be uprooted; if mixed, an erotic religion and fantasy science is born. Ironically Bacon states, "We ask mankind not to harm God when secular knowledge leads him to doubt in God's being."