The socio-political view about the primitive world in Giambattista Vico's thought

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  • Gaetano Antonio Gualtieri

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https://doi.org/10.12795/araucaria.2019.i41.05

Palabras clave:

Primitive world, Society, Politics, Myth, Needs

Resumen

This essay emphasizes how Vico was one of the modern philosophers to set himself the goal to reconstruct the history of the primitive world. Differently from several authors who preceded him and also other contemporary thinkers, the Neapolitan philosopher showed that the world of the origin wasn’t idyllic, but it was affected by fear, anguish and basic needs. What mainly characterizes Vico, however, is the fact that he represented the primitive world not as a unitary and fixed block, but as a world made of different historical phases and of class and social conflicts. As there were no written documents, Vico elaborated a reconstruction of history, basing it on a new and revolutionary theory of myths which, being based on creativity induced by fantasy, are called “universali fantastici” (fantastic universals).

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2019-01-21

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Gualtieri, G. A. (2019). The socio-political view about the primitive world in Giambattista Vico’s thought. Araucaria, 21(41). https://doi.org/10.12795/araucaria.2019.i41.05

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Las ideas. Su política y su historia
Recibido 2018-01-28
Aceptado 2018-05-15
Publicado 2019-01-21
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