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Ingenium e natura umana in Giambattista Vico.

2009

Abstract. In the present theories about human nature there are some attempts to naturalize the mind; on the other hand there are tendencies of thought that criticise those ideas. Vico’s work can be considered the foundation of theories which refuse to naturalize humans. Vico had an anti-dualistic view of human nature, centred on ingenium and related to the ideas of action, language, civil world and culture. This essay analyses Vico’s concept of ingenium and proposes a reflection about his epistemology (1), philosophy of mind (2) and philosophy of language (3). (1) Knowledge and truth are connected to human praxis and action. Vico’s theory of knowledge is based on the verum-factum principle.…