FRANCIS BACON PRINCIPLES AND HIS PHILOSOPHY

What is philosophy? Is Philosophy Effective For Our Life? Is really good for science?The term philosophy comes from Greek phileo - love, friend and sophia - wisdom and means love of wisdom. Among ancient Greeks, word love, in relation to wisdom, meant the desire for knowledge, thirst for knowledge.The first to use word philosopher was Pythagoras. He believed that meaning of is in search for truth. However, they identified wisdom not with achievement of truth, but with ability to prove what everyone himself considers correct and beneficial. For this, any means were recognized as acceptable, up to various kinds of tricks. The famous ancient Greek thinker Platon believed that task of is to know eternal and absolute truths. This can only be done by philosophers who are endowed with a corresponding wise soul from birth. According to Aristotle, task of is to comprehend universal in world itself, and its subject is first principles and causes of being. Moreover, understanding for purpose of knowledge and understanding itself”. So, some thinkers saw essence of in finding truth, others in hiding, distorting, adapting it to respective interests. Some argue that is self-sufficient, others say that it should serve society and people, etc *.

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