@article{ref1,
title="Francis Bacon, violence, and the motion of liberty: the Aristotelian background",
journal="Journal of the history of ideas",
year="2014",
author="Pesic, Peter",
volume="75",
number="1",
pages="69-90",
abstract="The elucidation of Francis Bacon's new approach to nature calls for constant comparison with Aristotle's terminology, the common starting point for Bacon and his contemporaries. What Bacon called &quot;the violence of impediments&quot; is only understandable in relation to Aristotle's technical use of the term &quot;violence,&quot; as distinguished from other common uses of this word. Bacon's &quot;impediments&quot; do not violate nature but reveal its latent possibilities, for &quot;violence&quot; starts within nature itself, as a dramatic nexus of conflicting forces whose release results in the &quot;motion of liberty.&quot; Subtle co-optation of this natural violence can transform and control nature.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0022-5037",
doi="10.1353/jhi.2014.0007",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2014.0007"
}