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Philosophize This!
The book was cited as a classic example of utopian fiction, illustrating Bacon's vision of a science‑driven society that could solve humanity's problems and make traditional virtues obsolete. The hosts referenced it while discussing abstract theories of social organization and the potential of scientific abundance.
Episode: Episode #025 ... A Scientific Method For Your Life...
It is a book outlining Bacon's vision of a utopian society where science is the chief priority and solves all of humanity's problems. The podcast discussed its unique approach to human excess, suggesting science would create abundance, rendering traditional virtues obsolete.
There is yet a much more important and profound kind of fallacies in the mind of man, which I find not observed or inquired at all, and think good to place here, as that which of all others appertaineth most to rectify judgment. The force whereof is such, as it doth not dazzle or snare the understanding in some particulars, but doth more generally and inwardly infect and corrupt the state thereof. For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence. Nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture if it be not delivered and reduced. For this purpose let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind.