Another Florentine, Machiavelli, moved further in the same direction.

另一位来自佛罗伦萨的思想家马基雅弗利,更加深入的研究了这个问题

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up to the modern age with philosophers like Machiavelli, Descartes, Locke, etc.

直到现代的哲学家，像马基雅弗利、笛卡尔、洛克等等。

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Francis Bacon, influenced by Machiavelli, urged human beings to employ their reason to force nature to give up its secrets, to treat nature like a woman, to master nature in order to improve man's material well being.

弗朗西斯·培根受到马基雅弗利的影响,提倡人们运用理性,来让自然原形毕露,像对待女人那样对待自然,去征服自然以提升人类的物质生活

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