Giambattista Vico
Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Vico or Vigo (23 June 1668 – 23 January 1744) was an Italian political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist. A critic of modern rationalism and apologist of classical antiquity, Vico's magnum opus is Scienza Nuova (1725), often published in English as New Science.
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Giambattista Vico - Response To The Cartesian Method
... As he relates in his autobiography, Vico returned to Naples from Vatolla to find “the physics of Descartes at the height of its renown among the established men of letters ... Vico’s humanism and professional concerns prompted an obvious response that he would develop throughout the course of his writings the realms of verifiable truth and human concern share only a ... and earliest forms of this argument is available in the De Italorum Sapientia, where Vico argues that "to introduce geometrical method into practical ...
... As he relates in his autobiography, Vico returned to Naples from Vatolla to find “the physics of Descartes at the height of its renown among the established men of letters ... Vico’s humanism and professional concerns prompted an obvious response that he would develop throughout the course of his writings the realms of verifiable truth and human concern share only a ... and earliest forms of this argument is available in the De Italorum Sapientia, where Vico argues that "to introduce geometrical method into practical ...
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