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A treatise of vital importance for an understanding of Vico's epistemology, psychology, and philosophy of mathematics.



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This work gives significant insight into the early thoughts of one of the first truly modern thinkers in Western intellectual tradition. Palmer's excellent introduction illustrates its historical significance by placing it in a wider context.

* Library Journal *

Until now, the Latin treatise in which Vico first set forth his theory of knowledge and of metaphysics, On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, has never had a complete rendering into English. Lucia Palmer in this volume has provided a welcome translation not only of the treatise, but also of a series of exchanges concerning it (1711–12) between Vico and the Giornale de' letterati d'Italia. It contains the fullest statement of Vico's principle that the true and the made are interchangeable.

* Seventeenth-Century News *

On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: 20/07/1988
      ISBN13: 9780801495113, 978-0801495113
      ISBN10: 0801495113
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      Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge Western philosophy from c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A treatise of vital importance for an understanding of Vico's epistemology, psychology, and philosophy of mathematics.



      Trade Review

      This work gives significant insight into the early thoughts of one of the first truly modern thinkers in Western intellectual tradition. Palmer's excellent introduction illustrates its historical significance by placing it in a wider context.

      * Library Journal *

      Until now, the Latin treatise in which Vico first set forth his theory of knowledge and of metaphysics, On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, has never had a complete rendering into English. Lucia Palmer in this volume has provided a welcome translation not only of the treatise, but also of a series of exchanges concerning it (1711–12) between Vico and the Giornale de' letterati d'Italia. It contains the fullest statement of Vico's principle that the true and the made are interchangeable.

      * Seventeenth-Century News *

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