Overview of The Essays (Penguin Classics) Book

The genius of Francis Bacon is nowhere better revealed than in his essays. Bacon s education was grounded in the classical texts of ancient Greece and Rome, but he brought vividness and color to the arid scholasticism of medieval book-learning. Whatever their subject, whether it is something as personal as Friendship or as abstract as Truth, the essays combine a mixture of rhetoric and philosophy; and are perhaps the most complete and rounded examples of Bacon s literary style. Rather than merely summarizing popular philosophy or producing glib expositions of correct conduct, Bacon attempted to change the shape of the other men s minds. He believed rhetoric, as the force eloquence and persuasion, could incline the mind towards the pure light of reason.

• Book Type :

Humanities

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

• ISBN - 10 :

0140432167

• The Essays (Penguin Classics) Published On :

29 Aug 1985

• Resource:

Textbooks, Humanities Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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