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Giambattista Vico’s “Anthropodicy” between Ethics, Metaphysics, and History

Claudia Megale ; University of Naples Federico II, Corso Umberto I, IT–80138 Naples

Abstract

Insisting upon the differentiations of lemmas animus and anima in De antiquissima, we can attribute to Vico a theory able to reassess sense, memory, fantasy, and other faculties very closely related to animus immortale and foreign to the Cartesian conception which states the inferiority of those subordinate faculties to res cogitans. This is the starting point of a complex elaboration that in latter writings, the ones dedicated to the universal right, will allow theorizing of this sense of certum and auctoritas, distinct but not separated from the verum of human reason – which becomes history and stands at the very center of an universal human theodicy. This theodicy – far away from a classic ontological interpretation – could be defined as “anthropodicy”, hiding in its vis both assimilation and reassessment of the problem of Vichian time, seen through a Leibnizian matrix.

Keywords

Giambattista Vico; anima; animus; anthropology; philosophy; philology; history; metaphysics

Hrčak ID:

164520

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/164520

Publication date:

27.1.2016.

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