Open Zoom: Francis Bacon and Modern Medicine

Rudolf Steiner mentions in several key places the individuality of Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the British Philosopher and Politician, highlighting his influential role in the development of the modern scientific method, as well as an interesting and mysterious karmic history with Arabia, Aristotelianism, and Shakespeare. Indeed, Steiner places him as a key figure for us to understand not just in the Anthroposophic medical movement, but in Volume VIII of Karmic Relationships, places this story as one fundamental for us as an anthroposophic movement as a whole. The materialistic scientific medicine of today has become an all pervasive and dominant cultural force which cannot be ignored, and appears to be often far removed from a spiritual-scientific view of the world and the human being. Over the last few years, it has become clear that this is an impulse which penetrates all fields of life and is not exclusive to the medical-scientific world.