Week 6 — Populist Engineering
Idols of the Market-place
Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism XLIII
This is the one week where the modern course term and Bacon's own coinage are nearly identical.
Every modern analytical term this course uses is a translation of something Bacon named or argued himself. Some are near-exact matches; others are genuine extensions of his idea into territory he never wrote about directly. Both are labeled honestly below.
Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism XLIII
This is the one week where the modern course term and Bacon's own coinage are nearly identical.
"Of Delays," Essays
A near-direct match between the modern label and Bacon's own claim.
New Atlantis
Close to a direct match — Bacon is literally describing hidden causal networks and the value of mapping them.
"Printing, gunpowder, and the mariner's needle..." — Novum Organum, Book I
Important to be explicit with students: the dialectical framework itself is not Bacon's. His own contribution is the observation about permanent pressure without rest.
"Of Revenge," Essays
Bacon names revenge, not mercy — his argument for mercy is made by contrast, not through a direct positive claim about mercy itself.
Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism CXXIX
Bacon's claim about the natural sciences, applied by the course to institutions and governance — a strong analogy, not a direct statement about politics.
Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorisms XLI–XLIV
Tribe = errors general to human nature, the frame for the whole mob subplot. Cave = an individual's own bias, used in Week 3. Market-place = language/discourse errors, used in Week 6. Theatre = inherited dogma — not assigned to a week currently, but a natural fit for Week 11's ceremony discussion.
Meditationes Sacrae, 1597
Not used as a specific week's aphorism here — it's the foundational claim underneath the entire K-12 Bacon program.