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1 online resource (172 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: On Humanistic Education / Donald Phillip Verene -- 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 -- App. I. Vico's Goals of the Various Studies Suitable to Human Nature -- App. II. History of the Latin Manuscripts |
| Summary |
Vico's earliest extant scholarly works, the six orations on humanistic education, offer the 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 of Vico'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 joins a number of translations of Vico's works available in paperback from Cornell-On the Study Methods of Our Time, On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, the New Science, and The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico. It 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 |
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Education, Early works to 1800 |
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Philosophy Early works to 1800 |
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Theology Early works to 1800 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-154) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Philosophy -- Early works to 1800
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Theology -- Early works to 1800.
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Education, Humanistic -- Early works to 1800
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EDUCATION -- Essays.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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EDUCATION -- Reference.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Education, Humanistic
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Philosophy
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Theology
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Wetenschapsbeoefening.
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Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis)
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02.02 philosophy and theory of science.
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| Genre/Form |
Early works
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Visconti, Gian Galeazzo.
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| LC no. |
92056787 |
| ISBN |
9781501717284 |
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1501717286 |
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