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AbstractFrancis Bacon's New Atlantis is considered with a view to the problematic unity of its author's oeuvre. Beginning from the question of the genre or literary character of the work and proceeding through a consideration of the Platonic precedent announced in the title, an attempt is made to reconcile Bacon's rejection of the classical, utopian tradition of political thought with the apparently utopian character of the island of Bensalem. Such an interpretation suggests that the title announces a project shown to be possible, even necessary, in the course of the travel story that is the drama of the work.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE. Modern Science on Who We Are as Free and/or Relational Beings -- 1. LOCKE, DARWIN, AND THE SCIENCE OF MODERN VIRTUE -- 2. THE VIRTUE OF SCIENCE AND THE SCIENCE OF VIRTUE. DESCARTES' OVERCOMING OF SOCRATES -- 3. NOTES ON "THE VIRTUE OF SCIENCE AND THE SCIENCE OF VIRTUE" -- 4. MORE CARTESIAN THAN DESCARTES. REFLECTIONS ON SPINOZA IN THE SPIRIT OF TOCOUEVILLE -- 5. LOCKE'S EXPLANATION OF HOW THE SCIENCE OF CIVIL SOCIETY CORRECTS THE NATURAL AUTHORITY OF VIRTUE -- 6. THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN EQUALITY IN LOCKE'S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -- 7. LOCKE, DARWIN, AND THE SOCIAL INDIVIDUALISM OF VIRTUE -- 8. DESCARTES, LOCKE, AND THE VIRTUE OF THE INDIVIDUAL -- 9. SCIENCE, VIRTUE, AND THE BIRTH OF MODERNITY OR, ON THE TECHNO-THEO-LOGIC OF MODERN NEUROSCIENCE -- 10. THE MUTUAL SACRIFICE OF SCIENCE AND VIRTUE -- 11. THE SCIENTIFIC LIFE AS A MORAL LIFE? VIRTUE AND THE CARTESIAN SCIENTIST -- 12. THE DARWINIAN SCIENCE OF ARISTOTELIAN VIRTUE -- 13. LOGON DIDONAI THE CASE OF THE DARWINIAN CONSERVATIVE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS