DANIEL LARISON ON MAISTRE

In a critique of my post on Joseph de Maistre and other reactionaries, Larison writes:

He was a philosopher of science and wrote a serious critique of the materialism of Bacon, so to say that he hated scientists is absurd.

Maistre wasn't a philosopher of science and he thought empirical research was a threat to religion and authority. This is from the Encyclopedia Britannica¹:

He opposed the progress of science and the liberal beliefs and empirical methods of philosophers such as Francis Bacon (1561–1626), Voltaire (1694–1778), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), and John Locke (1632–1704).

¹Maistre, Joseph de. (2008). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved August 2, 2008, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9050194