The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico

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Carla Santilli mentioned this Neapolitan philosoper at the conclusion of this, regarding how science must progress by returning to Galilean-esque experimental verification here on earth before applying theories to cosmology. Romano Amerio quotes the conclusion of Vico's masterpiece in the conclusion of his Iota Unum. Card. Siri discusses Vico in the context of historicism, and Deely also discusses him in his Four Ages of Understanding , saying that he was as interested in Newton's physics as Kant was.

Credited as the inventor of the philosophy of history, Vico's influential pre-Enlightenment theories about knowledge, metaphysics, and moral consciousness gained a wider audience with this acclaimed 20th-century exposition.