forces in ordinary cases, and the description of the arts as human means to change the course of nature.
The imagination: its subject is poetry, and poetry is divided into story poetry,
descriptive poetry, representational poetry, and symbolic poetry, which is an interpretation of stories and legends and the extraction of the meanings contained in their images, an ancient interpretation that was common in the Renaissance.
The mind: its subject is philosophy, and philosophy deals
with three subjects nature, man, and God. There is natural philosophy, which is divided into metaphysics or the science of formal and final causes, and to nature or the science of efficient and material causes, which is divided into mechanics and magic. There is humanistic philosophy or the philosophy of man, which is divided into what deals with the soul (science
of reason or logic, science of will or ethics, and what deals with social and political relations. As for divine philosophy or natural theology, it paves the way for it with the science of first philosophy, or the science of elementary principles, such as that equal quantities if they are added to unequal quantities
result in unequal quantities, and that the two terms that agree with
a third term of them agree, and that everything changes but nothing perishes, etc. That, and this science is the common stem between the sciences of the mind.
But to what extent is Bacon's classification of sciences acceptable
Obviously, this classification
has several weaknesses 1- It is a subjective classification based on our perceived powers.
2- Bacon thinks that one of the forces of knowledge is sufficient for the establishment of one science, and this is a mistake because a single knowledge combines to establish all the forces with the existence of a discrepancy between the sciences.
3- It places the perceptual powers in one rank, while the mind is superior to the other perceptual powers....etc.