Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 30 No. 2, 2015.
Original scientific paper
The Language of Giove: Reason and Religion in Vico’s New Science
Sertório de Amorim e Silva Neto
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; Federal University of Uberlândia, Institute of Philosophy, Campus Santa Mônica, Bloco 1U, Sala 125, Avenida João Naves de Ávila, nº 2121, CEP 38.408–100, Uberlândia-MG, Brasil
Abstract
A discovery of The New Science, of which Vico became proud, was that of religion as the “principle” of the world of nations. In it Vico sounded out his doctrine concerning the natural law, but this research would still have allowed him the encounter with a metaphysics of the human mind, with a rational human nature, beyond sociability. The divination of ancient people, coeval to their first fables and myths, would suppose a fundamental conception of the human being as endowed with soul and language, allowing us to think over the traditional marks of the Vichian history of nations. In the present paper and starting from a new path, we will reconstruct the central aspects of this Vichian anthropology, trying to find the origins of the native religion of the founders of people and nations.
Keywords
Giambattista Vico; reason; mute language; genius; religion; world of the nations
Hrčak ID:
164517
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Publication date:
27.1.2016.
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