I due assiomi di Vico

Traducción del inglés por Jesús Navarro Reyes.La Ciencia nueva de Vico ofrece los medios para lidiar con el hecho de que “La historia es una pesadilla de la que estoy intentando despertar.” La Ciencia nueva es lo que necesitamos para vivir en la barbarie de la reflexión.Vico’s New Science provides a means to cope with the fact that “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” The New Science is what we need in order to live in the barbarity of reflection.La Scienza nuova di Vico offre oggigiorno i mezzi per affrontare il fatto che “La storia è un incubo dal quale sto cercando di svegliarmi”. La Scienza nuova è, allora, ciò di cui abbiamo bisogno per vivere nella barbarie della riflessione

La estructura retórica de la Scienza nuova

Se suele recibir la Scienza nuova (1730/44) como una obra de filosofía, en el sentido usual empleado para comprender otros libros filosóficos mayores. Yo considero la Scienza nuova como una prolongada oración escrita, de manera que el orden de los cinco libros corresponde a las partes de una oración forense o judicial tal y como las presenta Vico en su manual de retórica, Institutiones oratoriae. La nueva ciencia de Vico requiere un nuevo modo de pensar sobre el mundo civil. No avanzan sus principios sobre la base del análisis filosófico, sino por medio del habla retórica.The Scienza nuova (1730/44) is commonly approached as a work of philosophy, interpreted in terms typically employed to understand other major philosophical books. I consider the Scienza nuova as an extended, written oration, with the order of its five books corresponding to the parts of forensic or judicial oration as presented in Vico’s textbook on rhetoric, Institutiones oratoriae. Vico’s new science requires a new way of thinking about the civil world. It advances its principles not on the basis of philosophical analytics but by means of rhetorical speech

Vichian Moral Philosophy: Prudence as Jurisprudence

Vico discerned in Descartes\u27 method for conducting right reasoning in the sciences a new and completely modern conception of human knowledge. This conception excludes those fields of study that the ancients believed to be the basis of civil wisdom, namely, eloquence or rhetoric and jurisprudence or law. Vico reminds us that what philosophy was for the Greeks, jurisprudence was for the Romans. In accordance with the Digest, Vico held that Roman law is civil wisdom itself: all that is necessary for proper human conduct is specified in the law. The law itself must be reasonable and just. The law, or jurisprudence, teaches us the principles of moral philosophy. The art of prudence in human affairs, which is the center of moral philosophy, is learned from the art of jurisprudence