Francis Bacon on Motion and Power

1. Introduction: Francis Bacon and the Theologico-political Reconfiguration of Desire in the Early Modern Period
Guido Giglioni

2. Appetites, Matter and Metaphors: Aristotle, Physics I, 9 (192a22–23), and Its Renaissance Commentators
Daniel C. Andersson

3. Lists of Motions: Francis Bacon on Material Disquietude
Guido Giglioni

4. Bacon’s Apples: A Case Study in Baconian Experimentation
Dana Jalobeanu

5.
Prolongatio Vitae and Euthanasia in Francis Bacon
Marta Fattori

6. Francis Bacon’s Flux of the Spirits and Renaissance Paradigms of Hybridity and Adaptation
Miranda Anderson

7.
Cupido, sive Atomus; Dionysus, sive Cupiditas: Francis Bacon on Desire
Guido Giglioni

8. The Ethics of Motion: Self-Preservation, Preservation of the Whole, and the ‘Double Nature of the Good’ in Francis Bacon
Silvia Manzo

9. Francis Bacon on the Motions of the Mind
Sorana Corneanu

10. Francis Bacon on the Moral and Political Character of the Universe
James A. T. Lancaster

11. A More Perfect Union: Bacon’s Correspondence of Form and Policy
Vera Keller

12. Bacon’s Idola in Vernacular Translations: 1600–1900
Marialuisa Parise

Avainsanat: Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Nature, Philosophy of Medicine