Early modern · 1668–1744
Who did Giambattista Vico influence?
Students and legacy
Held that we truly know only what we make — history as the New Science of nations.
Giambattista Vico influenced Johann Gottfried Herder. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Giambattista Vico?
Giambattista Vico, a philosopher, rhetorician and jurist of the Italian Enlightenment, found Cartesian analysis useless for human life and defended classical and Renaissance humanist learning. He is counted among the first figures of the Counter-Enlightenment.
His maxim "verum esse ipsum factum", truth is itself something made, is an early form of constructivist epistemology. His New Science (1725) tries to organise the humanities into one science of the cycles in which societies rise and fall, and it opened the modern philosophy of history.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who did Giambattista Vico influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Giambattista Vico.
- Johann Gottfried Herder 1744–1803
Two steps away from Giambattista Vico
The second generation
Contemporaries of Giambattista Vico
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Giambattista Vico, with no direct line between them.
- Christian Wolff 1679–1754
- George Berkeley 1685–1753
- Montesquieu 1689–1755
- Pierre Bayle 1647–1706
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716
Giambattista Vico by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 0
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 0
- Thinkers downstream
- 70
- Wikipedia languages
- 65 — #23 of 36 among early modern philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Giambattista Vico
- Who influenced Giambattista Vico?
- No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on Giambattista Vico.
- Who did Giambattista Vico influence?
- Johann Gottfried Herder.
- When did Giambattista Vico live?
- 1668–1744. The map files Giambattista Vico under the early modern period.
- How rare is the Giambattista Vico card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Giambattista Vico in 65 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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