Francis Bacon’s holding of adulterated moral and religious position clarifies his pragmatist mind in his essays. He made an agreement with pragmatism which is defined by Mautner in his Dictionary of Philosophy: “Pragmatism can be briefly described as the theory that a proposition is true if holding it to be so is practically successful or advantageous.” (2005, p.485) He deals with problems that choke our worldly success in a practical way keeping morality aside. His essays reverse the statement- obstacles and problems can resist our improvement, advancement, and progression. Keeping an eye to the aforesaid statements, he casts off usury but supports monopoly in Of Riches:
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All he concerns and concentrates in his essays is prosperity and success of human beings in worldly terms by any means. Intellectually, his self-gained worldly wisdom and prudence tightened with utilitarianism and pragmatism finds its fullest expressions when he bestows his readers with benefit-seeking secrecy, assumes merely benefit-seeking terms—utility, usefulness, effectiveness, advantage etc. and loads his essays with so many theories to get profit out of them. For pragmatists, the matter of ethics is approached practically, morality is a habit and being fallibilists, they know that no habits are flawless and fixed. (Sullivan and Pecorino, 2002) Francis Bacon also cannot be fixed in anything. He mingled morality with immorality, religion with secularism. Eventually, his religiosity is just like scientific theory but not fact which is unchangeable. Howard White and Jerry Weinberger suggest that bacon’s religiosity is primarily a tool to gain favor with the regime and masks his true intentions for the creation of a secular, scientific utopia. (VoegelinView, n.d.) Likewise, his essays are not locked up by any particular doctrines or principles or they are not applied entirely but partially as “Pragmatism in ethics rejects the idea that there is any universal ethical principle or universal value. It holds for ethical principles being social constructs to be evaluated in terms of their usefulness.”(Sullivan and Pecorino, 2002) The matter of good and right was important for him in worldly terms. On one hand, he preached high moral principles and on the other hand, he also expressed a mean capacity by compromising upon those morals for the sake of worldly success. For this reason, William Blake, a spiritual poet, commented “good advice for Satan’s Kingdom.”(Cssforum, n.d.) To over-emphasize, Prof. A. R. Somroo in his article “Bacon’s essays: A blend of philosophizing, moralizing
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All he concerns and concentrates in his essays is prosperity and success of human beings in worldly terms by any means. Intellectually, his self-gained worldly wisdom and prudence tightened with utilitarianism and pragmatism finds its fullest expressions when he bestows his readers with benefit-seeking secrecy, assumes merely benefit-seeking terms—utility, usefulness, effectiveness, advantage etc. and loads his essays with so many theories to get profit out of them. For pragmatists, the matter of ethics is approached practically, morality is a habit and being fallibilists, they know that no habits are flawless and fixed. (Sullivan and Pecorino, 2002) Francis Bacon also cannot be fixed in anything. He mingled morality with immorality, religion with secularism. Eventually, his religiosity is just like scientific theory but not fact which is unchangeable. Howard White and Jerry Weinberger suggest that bacon’s religiosity is primarily a tool to gain favor with the regime and masks his true intentions for the creation of a secular, scientific utopia. (VoegelinView, n.d.) Likewise, his essays are not locked up by any particular doctrines or principles or they are not applied entirely but partially as “Pragmatism in ethics rejects the idea that there is any universal ethical principle or universal value. It holds for ethical principles being social constructs to be evaluated in terms of their usefulness.”(Sullivan and Pecorino, 2002) The matter of good and right was important for him in worldly terms. On one hand, he preached high moral principles and on the other hand, he also expressed a mean capacity by compromising upon those morals for the sake of worldly success. For this reason, William Blake, a spiritual poet, commented “good advice for Satan’s Kingdom.”(Cssforum, n.d.) To over-emphasize, Prof. A. R. Somroo in his article “Bacon’s essays: A blend of philosophizing, moralizing