PHIL 364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The New Science, Giambattista Vico
6 Jun 2017
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The text of scienza nuova and its rhetoric. Innate ideas = present in the mind from birth. Inquisition: naples of in control of the papacy and controlled what ideas were discussed in terms of philosophy (only thing that could be talked about was aristotle) Argues that descartes thinks that the universe is more rational than we are. Argues that reason can only do its work with the assistance of the imagination. Sex and survival = important themes in vico"s foundation myth.
