Bacon by R. W. Church ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

Bacon by R. W. Church audiobook.

Genre: biography

In this concise, vivid volume from the English Men of Letters series, Victorian scholar and churchman R. W. Church traces the extraordinary contradictions of Francis Bacon (1561-1626): philosopher of a new science, master of English prose, and ambitious servant of power in the volatile world of Elizabethan and Jacobean politics. Church follows Bacon from a brilliant, restless youth and early legal promise into the rivalries of court, where patronage, strategy, and survival often clash with principle. Along the way, he makes Bacon's big intellectual wager feel urgent and human: that knowledge should be rebuilt from the ground up through disciplined observation and experiment, so that humanity might gain practical command of nature. With clear explanations of Bacon's major writings and aims, and a steady eye for the pressures that shaped his choices, Church examines how a mind devoted to public good and intellectual reform could also accept compromises that darken its legacy. The result is both an accessible introduction to Bacon's ideas and a probing character study of greatness tested by temptation, ambition, and the costs of living at the center of power.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:27) Chapter 01

(00:33:37) Chapter 02

(00:53:22) Chapter 03

(01:21:14) Chapter 04

(01:52:24) Chapter 05

(02:10:23) Chapter 06

(02:36:34) Chapter 07

(02:54:27) Chapter 08

(03:13:22) Chapter 09

(03:30:57) Chapter 10

(03:56:49) Chapter 11

(04:22:09) Chapter 12

(04:53:25) Chapter 13

(05:06:52) Chapter 14

(05:29:32) Chapter 15

(05:56:21) Chapter 16

(06:25:35) Chapter 17

(06:38:39) Chapter 18

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