Renewing the Mind: Francis Baconâs New Logic

Simone DâAgostino

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In his volume of 1620, Bacon does not propose the Novum organum as a stand-alone work but places it within the complex of the Instauratio magna. This new instrument should be understood as a stage, albeit central, within the whole of Baconian philosophy, having the goal of restoring the lost relationship between mind and things. It is therefore necessary to cure the mind from the idols it is obsessed with, that spontaneously lead it to self-referentiality. And there is the need to furnish the mind with every aid available, so that it will cease imposing itself upon reality and will become effectively capable of receiving and transforming it. We are in need of a new logic, simultaneously consisting of a distinctive vision of the self and of the world. We have to find a way for the mind to be transformed by nature itself, to recognize how it depends upon and is a part of nature. Indeed, the governance of nature is not ever carried out without self-mastery. This is why Bacon puts into play a series of practices suitable to progressively engage with the needed transformation: attention, writing, and interpretation. Thus, Baconian induction consists of an apprenticeship wherein the mind learns to open itself to truth, liberating itself from its self-referential obsessions.

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Spiritual Exercises and Early Modern Philosophy

Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza

Series:Â Philosophy as a Way of Life, Volume: 3

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