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Bacon and Skepticism
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베이컨과 회의주의

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Hwang, Sul-joong (대전대학교)
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Korean Philosophical Society Journal of Korean Philosophical Society Vol.161 KCI Accredited Journals
Published
2022.2
Pages
363 - 395 (33page)
DOI
10.20293/jokps.2022.161.363

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The most important epistemological task of modern philosophers was to defeat skepticism. Bacon was no exception. The skeptics propounding that “nothing can be known (acatalepsia)” were destroyers of knowledge, i.e. the power of man. According to Bacon, they were specifically the new-academics and pyrrhonists in the ancient Hellenistic period. Bacon tried to build the luminous world of “knowledge is attainable” (eucatalepsia) by uprooting the ancient dark skepticism that led man to intellectual desperation. To do so, Bacon developed his well-known doctrine of four idols. As long as man is obsessed with idols, so to speak, immersed in the swamps of ancient skepticism, there is no way out of the path of delusion and error. So Bacon declared that these idols must be renounced and put away with a fixed and solemn determination.
But could our intellect be completely liberated from idols, that is, from the arguments of ancient skepticism, as Bacon hoped? Bacon talked about the hope of increasing knowledge by suitable experiments, true induction, continuous gradual progress, and mutual cooperation between scientists. But it is rather the doctrine of idols which disclose that such works can never completely wipe out idols. This suggests that in Bacon’s philosophy it would be futile to find a theory that could refute or eradicate skepticism. Approaching Bacon’s philosophical project from the perspective of establishing a theory to overcome skepticism is unprofitable. Bacon is, as it were, a friend of the ancient skeptics. In my opinion, the new path Bacon pioneered in responding to skepticism is in his view of the problem of idols thoroughly from the practical consequence standpoint, while stubbornly refusing to enter the useless arena of arguments developed by ancient skeptics.

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논문개요
Ⅰ. 베이컨의 철학적 기획
Ⅱ. 베이컨과 고대 회의주의의 관계
Ⅲ. 베이컨의 우상론
Ⅳ. 베이컨의 중용의 길
Ⅴ. 베이컨의 건설적 회의주의
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