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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Italian Enlightenment historian
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Italian Enlightenment philosopher → historian → human → philosopher → |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Italy
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| ethnicGroup |
Italian
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| fieldOfWork |
epistemology
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historiography → history → jurisprudence → philosophy → philosophy of history → rhetoric → |
| fullName |
Giambattista Vico
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| givenName |
Giambattista
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| influenced |
Benedetto Croce
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Hayden White → Isaiah Berlin → James Joyce → Karl Marx → R. G. Collingwood → cultural anthropology → hermeneutics → historicism → philosophy of history → |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Italian
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Latin → |
| movement |
Enlightenment
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| nativeName |
Giambattista Vico
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| notableConcept |
civil world as a human creation
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poetic wisdom → |
| notableIdea |
corsi e ricorsi
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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
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De nostri temporis studiorum ratione → Scienza Nuova → The New Science → |
| occupation |
jurist
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rhetorician → university professor → |
| philosophicalSchool |
continental philosophy
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early historicism → |
| placeOfBirth |
Naples
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| placeOfDeath |
Naples
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Giambattista Vico
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Victor
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Isaiah Berlin
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