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Giambattista Vico (born Giovan Battista Vico / ˈviːkoʊ /; Italian: [ˈviko]; 23 June 1668 – 23 January 1744) was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist during the Italian Enlightenment.
Jun 11, 2003 · Giambattista Vico. Giovanni Battista Vico (1668–1744) spent most of his professional life as Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Naples. He was trained in jurisprudence, but read widely in Classics, philology, and philosophy, all of which informed his highly original views on history, historiography, and culture.
Giambattista Vico is often credited with the invention of the philosophy of history. Specifically, he was the first to take seriously the possibility that people had fundamentally different schema of thought in different historical eras.
Jun 19, 2024 · Giambattista Vico (born June 23, 1668, Naples [Italy]—died January 23, 1744, Naples) was an Italian philosopher of cultural history and law, who is recognized today as a forerunner of cultural anthropology, or ethnology.
Oct 18, 2022 · Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico lived and worked during the Italian Enlightenment. Through his work at the University of Naples and his signature text, *Scienza Nuova (The New Science)*, he became known as an opponent of Cartesian Rationalism, a movement that dominated eighteenth-century philosophy.
Jun 10, 2024 · Italian philosopher of history. Vico was born in Naples, and educated by the Jesuits. From 1699 he held the chair of rhetoric at the university of Naples. Vico's principal work was the Scienza Nova (1725, recast in new editions in 1730 and 1744, trs. as The New Science of Giambattista Vico, 1949).
Giambattista Vico, (born June 23, 1668, Naples—died Jan. 23, 1744, Naples), Italian philosopher of cultural history and law. In his major work, New Science (1725), he attempted to combine history and the more systematic social sciences into a single science of humanity.
