Title: Nietzsche and modern times
Description: This book explores the character of modernity through a consideration of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche. It argues that Bacon and Descartes, in their positive claims for science, played the fundamental role in the development of the modern world view; that they used the Platonic art of dissimulative writing as the means to achieve their ends by making their revolutionary aims appear compatible with Christianity; and that Nietzsche understood both their ends and their means and set out to ground an antimodern world view.
Subjects: Philosophy and science, Philosophy and civilization, Philosophy, modern, Nietzsche, friedrich wilhelm, 1844-1900, Bacon, francis, 1561-1626, Descartes, rene, 1596-1650, Philosophy, History, Moderne, Philosophie, Science
People: Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), René Descartes (1596-1650)