Tracing the Path of Giambattista Vico's Universal Right (Philosophy) - Softcover

Fabrizio, Lomonaco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8869771083 ISBN 13: 9788869771088

Publisher: Mimesis International, 2018

Synopsis

This volume offers a close analysis and textual study of Vico’s complex intellectual trajectory before the Scienze Nuove. Particular attention is devoted to the three books of Diritto Universale, as they mark a significant step in the redefinition of the relationship between metaphysics and philosophical questions of law. In Vico, we witness the connection – rather than the juxtaposition – between natural and historic law, and a new notion of the natural right of people that theorizes the historic right of nations. The modernity of Vico’s thought originates from his attempt to unify human and divine knowledge. As thoroughly discussed in this volume, Vico’s conception of the ‘verum’ aims precisely at combining history with those ‘human ideas’ that constitute a human history lived ethically in the experience of religion.

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From the Publisher:

Fabrizio Lomonaco is Full Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Naples “Federico II”. He is Director of “Civiltą del Mediterraneo” (Naples) and “Logos” (Naples) and has written more than 500 essays and articles relating to the 17th-18th centuries Holland (Grotius and Perizonio, Gronov, Huber and Le Clerc, Noodt and Barbeyrac) and Southern Italian thought (Caloprese, Gravina and Vico, Metastasio and Spinelli, Genovesi and Pagano). He has edited anastatic reprints of writings of Vico and Le Clerc, Gravina and Spinelli.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mimesis International
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 8869771083
• ISBN 13: 9788869771088
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160