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Francis Bacon (1561-1626 ) Outline of the lecture Outline of the lecture Section I: Introduction about Bacon’s life Section II: introduction about Bacon’s works Section III: introduction about Bacon’s theory and influence from 3 aspects part1: philosophy part2: Aesthetics part3: literature Section IV: play a video Brief Introduction Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a British philosopher and scientist, he was known as the British materialism and the entire modern experimental science the real ancestor. Author of academic progress (1605) and new tools (1620). Bacon sharply criticized the medieval Scholasticism that Scholasticism and theology seriously impede scientific progress, advocate a comprehensive transformation of human knowledge, the whole academic culture from Scholasticism liberation and realizing the great rejuvenation. He believes that science should pursue the things of nature and the reasons for the law. To achieve this goal, we must be based on sensory experiences. He is the father of experimental philosophy, whose father had been Lord Keeper, and himself was a great many years Lord Chancellor under King James I. Nevertheless, amidst the intrigues of a Court, and the affairs of his exalted employment (Because of bribery and extortion he was sentenced by the House of Lords to pay a fine of about four hundred thousand French livres(里弗，法国古代的货币单位）to lose his peerage and his dignity of Chancellor.), which alone were enough to engross his whole time, he yet found so much leisure for study as to make himself a great philosopher, a good historian, and an elegant writer; and a still more surprising circumstance is that he lived in an age in which the art of writing justly and elegantly was little known, much less true philosophy. Lord Bacon, as is the fate of man, was more esteemed after his death than his lifetime. His enemies were in the British Court, and his admirers were foreigners. A representative of the Renaissa