Vico

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Vico was an Italian Enlightenment philosopher and historian best known for his pioneering ideas on the cyclical nature of history and the role of culture in shaping human knowledge.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Italian Enlightenment historian
Italian Enlightenment philosopher
historian
human
philosopher
countryOfCitizenship Italy
ethnicGroup Italian
fieldOfWork epistemology
historiography
history
jurisprudence
philosophy
philosophy of history
rhetoric
fullName Giambattista Vico
givenName Giambattista
influenced Benedetto Croce
Hayden White
Isaiah Berlin
James Joyce
Karl Marx
R. G. Collingwood
cultural anthropology
hermeneutics
historicism
philosophy of history
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
Latin
movement Enlightenment
nativeName Giambattista Vico
notableConcept civil world as a human creation
poetic wisdom
notableIdea corsi e ricorsi
cyclical theory of history
emphasis on the role of culture and language in human knowledge
the idea that humans can truly know only what they have made
verum factum principle
notableWork De antiquissima Italorum sapientia
De nostri temporis studiorum ratione
Scienza Nuova
The New Science
occupation jurist
rhetorician
university professor
philosophicalSchool continental philosophy
early historicism
placeOfBirth Naples
placeOfDeath Naples

Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Giambattista Vico
familyName
Victor
hasDiminutive
Isaiah Berlin
influencedBy

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