Francis Bacon: teory, method and contributions to the education

Authors

  • Roberto Carlos Simões Galvão

Abstract

In the present article, we propose a brief analysis of Francis Bacon’s thought (1561-1626) and his contributions to the Education. With Bacon, the old religious or metaphysical character of knowledge was substituted by the objectivity of the experimental science, something unknown until then. The science started to represent a means in search of an end, i.e., man’s control over nature. The desire of Bacon to promote a reorganization of the power of the human knowledge, not based on the old scholastic knowledge, but in the new scientific knowledge, was shared by educators, philosophers and statesmen of his time. The role of the school would be to assure the dissemination of this new knowledge which, properly unified, would be within reach of all the children

Author Biography

Roberto Carlos Simões Galvão

Mestre em Fundamentos da Educação pela Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM), pós-graduado em Filosofia pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), bacharel em Direito pela Universidade Norte do Paraná, professor de Filosofia.

Published

2007-04-30

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