On Humanistic Education : : Six Inaugural Orations, 1699–1707 / / Giambattista Vico.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Vico, Giambattista,
• MitwirkendeR: Pinton, Giorgio A.,; Shippee, Arthur W.,; Verene, Donald Phillip,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

Vico's earliest extant scholarly works, the six first statement of ideas that Vico would continue to refine throughout his life. Delivered between 1699 and 1707 to usher in the new academic year at the University of Naples, the orations are brought together here for the first time in English in an authoritative translation based on Gian Galeazzo Visconti's 1982 Latin/Italian edition. In the lectures,Vico draws liberally on the classical philosophical and legal traditions as he explores the relationship between the Greek dictum "Know thyself' and liberal education. As he sets forth the values and goals of a humanist curriculum, Vico reveals the beginnings of the anti-Cartesian position he will pursue in On the Study Methods of Our Time ( 1709). Also found in the orations are glimpses ofVico's later views on the theory of interpretation and on the nature of language, imagination, and human creativity, along with many themes that were to be fully developed in his magnum opus, The New Science (1744). On Humanistic Education will be welcomed by Vichians and their students, intellectual historians, and others in the fields of philosophy, literary theory, history and methods of education, classics, and rhetoric.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: On Humanistic Education -- Translators' Note -- On Humanistic Education -- On Self-Knowledge -- On Virtue and Wisdom -- On True Learning -- On Education for the Common Good -- On the Liberal Arts and Political Power -- On the Proper Order of Studies -- Appendix I. Goals of the Various Studies Suitable to Human Nature -- Appendix II. History of the Latin Manuscripts -- List of Sources Cited -- General Index