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Giovan Battista (Giambattista) Vico (23 June 1668 – 23 January 1744) was an Italian political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist, who is recognized as one of the greatest Enlightenment thinkers. He criticized the expansion and development of modern rationalism and was an apologist of classical antiquity. Vico is best known for his magnum opus, the Scienza Nuova of 1725, often published in English as New Science.
Vico is a precursor of systemic and complexity thinking, as opposed to Cartesian analysis and other kinds of reductionism. Furthermore, he can be credited with the first exposition of the fundamental aspects of social science, though his views did not necessarily influence the first social scientists.
He is also well known for noting that verum esse ipsum factum ("true itself is fact" or "the true itself is made"), a proposition that has been read as an early instance of constructivist epistemology.
Vico is often claimed to have inaugurated modern philosophy of history, although the term is not found in his text (Vico speaks of a "history of philosophy narrated philosophically"). While Vico was not, strictly speaking, a historicist, interest in him has often been driven by historicists (such as Isaiah Berlin and Hayden White).
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Cortometraggio sulla vita e sul pensiero di Giambattista Vico, grandissimo filosofo napoletano. Lavoro realizzato dagli alunni Gennaro Bottino, Giorgio Cozzuto e Matteo Florio della classe IV G del Liceo Scientifico "Vincenzo Cuoco" di Napoli in occasione del CERTAME FILOSOFICO SU G.B. VICOCon Giorgio Cozzuto, Romualdo Marrone, Riccardo Alfano, Davide Tonio, Gennaro Bottino. Regia di Matteo Florio. Musiche di Patrizio Marrone.
Giambattista Vico nel pensiero europeo moderno. Conferenza del professore Biagio de Giovanni, nell'Istituto per gli Studi Filosofici di Napoli a Palazzo Serra di Cassano. Video di Giorgio Portelli.
A thought provoking collection of Creative Quotations from Giambattista Vico (1668-1744); born on Jun 23. Italian philosopher; He is recognized today as a forerunner of cultural anthropology, or ethnology.
Secundino Fernández García falleció el 14 de junio de 2013. Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad de Oviedo, con una tesis doctoral leída en 1995 y dirigida por Gustavo Bueno, «Estatuto gnoseológico de la Scienza Nuova de Giambattista Vico», y profesor de Filosofía durante treinta años (1984-2013) en distintos institutos de enseñanza secundaria de Gijón, pareció, cuando aún su cuerpo no había sido incinerado, que el mejor homenaje a su memoria debía consistir precisamente en la publicación como libro de aquel estudio, edición que el perfeccionismo del autor había ido demorando. Y quedó señalado como plazo el de la inauguración del nuevo curso de la Escuela de Filosofía de Oviedo, el 7 de octubre de 2013. Ese día, en efecto, se celebró el homenaje previsto a Secundino Fernández y se presen...