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Vico's Axioms: The Geometry of the Human World PDF

93 Pages·1995·10.754 MB·English
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by Professor James Goetsch Jr.| 1995| 93 pages| 10.754| English

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In spite of the importance of Giovanni Battista Vico - the Italian philosopher whose reflections on history, metaphysics, rhetoric, law and other subjects were influential in the shaping of modernity - scholars have debated whether he presented a coherent philosophy or simply a set of provocative random ideas. In this study, James Goetsch argues that Vico's major work, the "New Science", is a sustained, controlled poetic-philosophical meditation on the human world and that it is a philosophy in its own right. According to Goetsch, Vico proposes that we abandon the alliance between logic and metaphysics, and instead form one between logic and the rhetorical and poetical conceptions of human understanding that inform the human community. In this Vico revives the ancient sense of rhetoric found in Aristotle, who stated that logic and rhetoric are counterparts. Vico's philosophical system is best exemplified by the 114 axioms at the base of his "New Science". These axioms, which range over a puzzling variety of subjects, do not follow a logical or geometric model in the conventional sense, making it hard to account for Vico's claim that he thinks in the "geometric manner". Goetsch asserts, however, that they are used by Vico to express what Aristotle called maxims - "thoughts worth thinking" - that establish the fundamental points necessary to speak about human realities. Once this becomes clear, we see that Vico's thought combines history, philosophy and poetry in a comprehensive manner, and gives a new geometry of the human world.

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Author:Professor James Goetsch Jr.
Publication Year:1995
ISBN:9780300062724
Pages:93
Language:English
File Size:10.754
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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