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Vico, Giovanni Battista

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February 19, 2014

 

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For Vico, history is the account of the birth and development of human societies and their institutions. He thus departed from previous systems of writing historyeither as the biographies of great men, or as the development of God's will. Opposing the antihistorical elements of the prevailing Cartesianism (see Descartes, Rene ), he asserted that history is a valid object of human knowledge because man himself created history...
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Opposing the antihistorical elements of the prevailing Cartesianism (see Descartes, Rene ), he asserted that history is a valid object of human knowledge because man himself created history. Vico urged the study of language, mythology, and tradition as techniques for the investigation of history. As a philosopher, Vico believed that every period in history had a distinct character, and that similar periods recur throughout history in the same order...
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