Bacon#
Summary#
Nietzsche presents Bacon as representing an “attack on the philosophical spirit generally,” placing him at the forefront of English thinkers who contributed to an abasement and depreciation of the idea of a philosopher. Alongside Hobbes, Hume, and Locke, Bacon is portrayed as part of an English intellectual tradition that Nietzsche views as fundamentally unphilosophical and mechanistic in its worldview.