🟣 Giambattista Vico / Giovan Battista Vico / Philosophy #GiambattistaVico #InnaBesedina #Quotes

@ TELEGRAM: “MEN FIRST FEEL NECESSITY, THEN LOOK FOR UTILITY, NEXT ATTEND TO COMFORT, STILL LATER AMUSE THEMSELVES WITH PLEASURE, THENCE GROW DISSOLUTE IN LUXURY, AND FINALLY GO MAD AND WASTE THEIR SUBSTANCE.“ GIAMBATTISTA VICO GIAMBATTISTA VICO WAS AN ITALIAN PHILOSOPHER, RHETORICIAN, HISTORIAN, AND JURIST DURING THE ITALIAN ENLIGHTENMENT. HE CRITICIZED THE EXPANSION AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN RATIONALISM, FINDING CARTESIAN ANALYSIS AND OTHER TYPES OF REDUCTIONISM IMPRACTICAL TO HUMAN LIFE, AND HE WAS AN APOLOGIST FOR CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND THE RENAISSANCE HUMANITIES, IN ADDITION TO BEING THE FIRST EXPOSITOR OF THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND OF SEMIOTICS. HE IS RECOGNISED AS ONE OF THE FIRST COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT FIGURES IN HISTORY. THE LATIN APHORISM VERUM ESSE IPSUM FACTUM (“TRUTH IS ITSELF SOMETHING MADE“) COINED BY VICO IS AN EARLY INSTANCE OF CONSTRUCTIVIST EPISTEMOLOGY. HE INAUGURATED THE MOD