It is true that men themselves made this world of nations… but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
About Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vicowas an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist during the Italian Enlightenment. He criticized the expansion and development of modern rationalism, finding Cartesian analysis and other types of reductionism impractical to human life, and he was an apologist for classical antiquity and the Renaissance humanities, in addition to being the first expositor of the fundamentals of social science and of semiotics.
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Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations… but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist