“New Atlantis” – a technocratic utopia?
https://doi.org/10.25205/2541-7517-2023-21-1-90-104
Abstract
The paper brings the analysis of the peculiar features of Bacon’s utopianism, it’s linkage to and tensions with classical utopias, technocratic ideas, Christian humanism and Hobbesian ethics. The research is trying to revisit conventional views on the so-called Bacon’s technocratic perspective for the future of science, state and society. We argue that ethical framework of Bacon’s theory of science and it’s societal institutions has much in common with the Kenotic ethics of Christian humanism. His utopian novel follows this ethical pattern as well. The “limitation of science by religion” described in “New Atlantis” and in early tracts was on the other side a step in later Hobbesian direction towards the development of secular civic moral. In spite of this Baconian ethics was altruist & collectivist, unlike Hobbesian moral of selfishness & individualism.
About the Author
V. V. Markhinin
Surgut State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Markhinin Vasily Vasil’evitch, Candidate of Sciences (Philosophy), Docent, Department of Politology
Surgut
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Markhinin V.V. “New Atlantis” – a technocratic utopia? Siberian Journal of Philosophy. 2023;21(1):90-104. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25205/2541-7517-2023-21-1-90-104
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