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MY reasons for believing that a new exposition of Vico’s philosophy is required may easily be inferred from the observations on the effects of his work and the biographical notes which form respectively the second and fourth appendices to this volume.Here I merely wish to state that my exposition is not meant for a summary of Vico’s writings work by work and part by part. It rather presupposes an acquaintance with these writings, and, where that is lacking, is intended to induce the reader to procure them in order to follow better and to check the interpretation and estimate of them here offered.On this supposition, though I have made free use of my author’s actual words, especially in the chapters dealing with history, I have not thought it desirable to mark them as quotations except where it was important to emphasise the precise phrase of the original.In my anxiety to show in every detail of my work, so far as I could, the veneration due to the great name of Vico, I have endeavoured to be brief with the brevity at which he himself aimed as the hall-mark of sterling scientific thought. With this in view I have refrained even from controversy with his various interpreters, and hav

Who reads The Philosophy of Giambattista: VicoThe Philosophy of Giambattista Vico?

Author

Croce, Benedetto & Collingweed, R. G.

Publisher

Dover Publications, Incorporated

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486780917

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities