Roger Bacon Experimental ApproachRoger Bacon was a famous medieval thinker and scientist. He was one of the earliest advocates of systematic experimentation and emphasised grasping truth through a scientific approach. During the time when Thomas Aquinas argued that philosophy and science were secondary to theology, Bacon was the first man to liberate science from theology and enabled this “secondary” discipline to rule the world. This essay will introduce some of Bacon’s ideas, and arguments as to why Bacon is a significant thinker will be put forward.
One of the most famous ideas of Bacon is that theories can only become truth if they are proved by experiments. Bacon realised that reason and conjectures are insecure if not tested by experience. There are mainly two ways of exploring the truth: one is through discussion and argument, the other one is through experience. Bacon pointed out that the Aristotelian way of grasping the truth, the reasoning way, can only raise questions, but suspicions can never be eliminated thoroughly. For example, a man who has never seen fire before could speculate that fire can burn things, but he cannot be certain about that. So, he will not hide from fire. Only when he gets burned will he become aware of the power of fire, as his experience has assured him that fire can burn things. Hence, conviction and certainty are what experience can provide.
Bacon was a significant thinker in history for three reasons. First of all, his experimental approach was a new way of grasping the truth, which provides more accurate results. In medieval Europe, people used to regard religion and theology as the best ways of finding the truth. People revered authority so much that they lost their ability to query or innovate. For example, medieval people thought that what Aristotle said was always true as Aristotle was regarded as a sage. Aristotle had claimed that the nerves are joined in the heart. When a certain scholastic saw from anatomy that the nerves are joined in the brain, he covered his eyes and said that he could not face this truth since the truth is different from what Aristotle had said. This was how people followed authority and custom blindly. Then a man called Roger Bacon stood out and broke these rules and limits. Bacon realised that the real truth could never be obtained if everyone is just
The Second and Third Reasons for Bacon’s Influence in the English Church
In the early years of Charles I, there were considerable differences in understanding and understanding between the clergy of the Church of England. Bacon could be described as a liberal thinker. He began with an idea, which he wrote an article which became a textbook in medieval theology. This was not an academic paper. Not much was discussed of how Bacon was approaching theology, and there was little discussion of his ideas on the subject. It was probably around this time that Bacon decided to publish a book, but it had been rejected by some. The British bishops began to ask him, but he had never done an answer. The reaction of the Royal College of Cardinals was not, until that time, very positive. If you saw that you were not reading the most conservative book of the century, you might turn to one of the best books in English history, “The Christian Question in Medieval Europe”, by James A. Hochschild. It is a biography of the leader of the English Conservative movement, Sir Thomas Paine, who later left Britain after a battle with Edward VI. It took 10 years for the public to take this book seriously. In the first three decades of his reign, the Church of England went downhill, and the Church became dependent upon the powers that be to deal with it. So the church was divided from the clergy, many of whom were highly respected members. The Royal Society, which supported what Bacon called “the reform, liberal, or enlightened” movement of the early centuries after the Protestant Reformation, got involved with what turned into the American Revolution (the Revolution of 1848). The Reform movement was the great attempt to make the Church more conservative. The idea was that if every country had a Catholic community he or she would be less conservative. Bacon was just that. He decided that the Church of England could be brought together with other large national and global denominations to promote a kind of “nationalism of our own”, using a combination of the Christian Church and secular government. This was exactly what happened when the United States got involved. In 1789, John Paul II became the first President of the United States. John C. Calhoun became the first man to be elected Pope. The United Kingdom was a more conservative state then. When John Calvin arrived in America, he abolished all religious education in his country. He banned all public school education. After Calvin came out in favor of non-Christian teaching, the rest of the nation stopped using them until late in the Civil War and Protestantism became the dominant movement within the country. The fact that he made this change and did not get elected was a clear sign of his influence among the educated. When the war broke out in February, the country was divided. As Calvin did all before him, the majority of the country was Protestant.
Another cause of the separation was the separation of church and state. Calvin was the first openly Christian president of the United States, and one of the few who did not believe in slavery. Thus, Calvin was a member of one of the most progressive Protestant churches in the history of the world. When Calvin lost, the most respected Protestant of American society became the next President of the United States, and by 1883 Calvin was the greatest leader in the history of the United States.
One of the three major reasons why there are so many differences in religion are mainly the following:
1. The United States, with all its social, economic and cultural differences, was founded on the idea of the separation of church and state. It was not until the Revolution of 1848 that the United States was founded on the principles of separation of church and state. For example, if you look at the map on which the United States is located around the globe, it looks like a square