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Giambattista Vico

Born

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June 23, 1668

Died

January 23, 1744

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Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Vico or Vigo was an Italian political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist. A critic of modern rationalism and apologist of classical antiquity, Vico's magnum opus is titled "Principles/Origins of [re]New[ed] Science about the Common Nature of Nations" (Principi di Scienza Nuova d'intorno alla Comune Natura delle Nazioni). The work is explicitly presented as a "Science of reasoning" (Scienza di ragionare), and includes a dialectic between axioms (authoritative maxims) and "reasonings" (ragionamenti) linking and clarifying the axioms. Vico is often claimed to have inaugurated modern philosophy of history, although the expression is alien from Vico's text (Vico speaks of a "history of philosophy nar ...more

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	New Science by Giambattista Vico, Dave Marsh (Translator), Anthony Grafton (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 935 ratings — published 1725 — 172 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Study Methods of Our Time by Giambattista Vico, Elio Gianturco (Translator), Donald Phillip Verene (Translator) 3.70 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1709 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico by Giambattista Vico, Thomas G. Bergin (Translator), Max Harold Fisch (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1728 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians by Giambattista Vico, Jason Taylor (Translator), Robert C. Miner (Introduction) 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1988 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First New Science by Giambattista Vico, Leon Pompa (Editor/Translator) 4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Humanistic Education: Six Inaugural Orations, 1699-1707 by Giambattista Vico, Giorgio A. Pinton (Translator), Arthur W. Shippee (Translator) 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De antiquissima italorum sapientia 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Heroic Mind really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1732	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science": Translations, Commentaries, and Essays by Giambattista Vico, Thora Ilin Bayer (Editor), Donald Phillip Verene (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vici vindiciae by Giambattista Vico, Davide Luglio (Translator), Béatrice Périgot (Translator) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1729	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate things in their hands and talk to them in play as if they were living persons... This philological-philosophical axiom proves to us that in the world's childhood men were by nature sublime poets...”
― Giambattista Vico, New Science

tags: childhood, play, poetry, poets, sublime

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“peoples, like so many beasts, have fallen into the custom of each man thinking only of his own private interests and have reached the extreme of delicacy, or better of pride, in which like wild animals they bristle and lash out at the slightest displeasure. Thus no matter how great the throng and press of their bodies, they live like wild beasts in a deep solitude of spirit and will, scarcely any two being able to agree since each follows his own pleasure and caprice.”
― Giambattista Vico, New Science

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“A city divided by religion is either already in ruins or close to it.”
― Giambattista Vico, Vico: The First New Science

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