De antiquissima Italorum sapientia

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De antiquissima Italorum sapientia is a philosophical treatise by Giambattista Vico that explores the origins of human knowledge and ancient Italian wisdom as a foundation for his broader philosophy of history and culture.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
philosophical treatise
work of philosophy
aim to derive ancient Italian wisdom from the Latin language
to ground a new science of human things
author Giambattista Vico
centralConcept critique of Cartesian rationalism
identity of the true and the made
priority of poetic wisdom
verum-factum principle
countryOfOrigin Italy
field history of ideas
philosophy of culture
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surface form: De antiquissima Italorum sapientia ex linguae latinae originibus eruenda
genre scholarly treatise
hasModernTranslation English
Italian
historicalContext early 18th-century Naples
influenced Giambattista Vico's later philosophy of history
Scienza Nuova
surface form: Scienza nuova
influencedBy Plato
Renaissance humanism
Scholasticism
Stoicism
keyTheme critique of purely abstract method in philosophy
origin of metaphysical concepts in poetic and mythic thought
primacy of practice and making in knowledge
role of language in the formation of ideas
originalLanguage Latin
philosopherDiscussed René Descartes
surface form: Descartes

Plato
philosophicalPosition anti-Cartesian
emphasis on historical and linguistic foundations of knowledge
philosophicalSchool Vichian philosophy
philosophicalTradition early modern philosophy
publicationYear 1710
relatedWork De nostri temporis studiorum ratione
Scienza Nuova
surface form: Scienza nuova
shortTitle De antiquissima Italorum sapientia self-link
structure divided into axioms and corollaries
subject ancient Italian wisdom
epistemology
metaphysics
natural law
origins of human knowledge
philosophy of history

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verum factum principle developedInWork De antiquissima Italorum sapientia
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