In the early seventeenth century Francis Bacon called for the institution of a distinct field of theoretical and practical knowledge that would deal with the tight interrelationship between the mind and the body of man, which he dubbed “the inquirie tovching hvmane natvre entyre” ( Advancement of Learning , Book II). According to Bacon, such knowledge was already in existence, but unfortunately scattered in medical and religious texts. As a remedy, he proposed an integrated and autonomous account that would constitute “one general science concerning the Nature and State of Man” ( De augmentis scientiarum , Book IV). Such an account would concern itself with both the nature of the bond ( vinculum ) between mind and body ( ibid .) and with the medical-religious care of man in his entirety. My purpose here is to identify a number of late Renaissance contexts that flagged a comparable type of preoccupation with the nature and care of the ‘whole man’ from a perspective that similarly strove to combine philosophy, medicine and theology.

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整个人的本质和关怀：弗朗西斯·培根和文艺复兴晚期的一些背景


17 世纪初，弗朗西斯·培根 (Francis Bacon) 呼吁建立一个独特的理论和实践知识领域，以处理人的思想和身体之间的紧密相互关系，他将其称为“tovching hvmane natvre entyre”（促进学习，第二册）。根据培根的说法，这种知识已经存在，但不幸的是分散在医学和宗教文本中。作为补救措施，他提出了一个综合的、自主的帐户，它将构成“关于人类的自然和状态的一门一般科学”（De gainis scientiarum，第四册）。这样的解释既涉及身心之间的纽带（vinculum）的性质（同上），也涉及整个人的医学宗教护理。