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(As you can tell, there's two books to this, logic/science, and metaphysics, but don't worry, it's only about 400 pages long. (and 70 of them are just the introduction with historical context and translator's notes))pic.twitter.com/8YOmXbbbVM
For those absolutely new to this, we're dealing with Francis Bacon, not Roger Bacon. (Sorry, Shadow Hearts fans)pic.twitter.com/9bC1u6mTh7
Francis Bacon founded British Empiricism and, infamously, claimed to be smarter than all the Greeks and Aristotle. It is Maistre's intention to show, more or less, that he was not only WRONG, but that he was, in modern terms, acting like Wallace Shawn in "The Princess Bride."pic.twitter.com/tkMBQv4Kdk
Bacon's self-described goal was essentially to rescue humanity from the dark ages. Hes, the Anglo was the innovator of this stupid meme, one that Maistre spends considerable wordcount demolishing.pic.twitter.com/HuinGfdJ1U
Empires rise and fall, but the Anglo is eternal.
(h/t: @mr_scientism )pic.twitter.com/72Wgr8GaIp
Okay, Bacon was a very ungrateful and unpleasant person. But what about his method? What's wrong with it, you ask? Maistre provides us with a straightforward answer: "Luciferianism."pic.twitter.com/cHyCnup7uc
LAMO, Transhumanism is literally just outdated sentimental Renaissance humanism. How can [insert]/ACC ever recover from this?pic.twitter.com/Mp07mXYlvY
It's remarkable how Maistre essentially refuted all of modern philosophy in just three paragraphs. You can read entire books without the value of a single one of his pages.pic.twitter.com/cGWgQ8NMgd
I like how you go from “haw haw, Bacon was an arrogant nibba” to “and here we see De Maistre refute modern philosophy in three paragraphs” in the space of a few tweets
the related descriptions for the pictures become less and less related as the thread goes on. I get that way in my note taking from time to time :D
the funny thing is de maistre only vaguely pays attention to what Bacon says. It’s pretty clear why he sat on this one for 20 years before publishing... it has more to do with Condillac and French empiricism than Bacon
for sure. and it didn’t really matter at the time, when bacon was the hero of the idéologistes - for them to riposte that Bacon would have despised them would have been a major own-goal
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