Giambattista Vico
Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Vico or Vigo (23 June 1668 – 23 January 1744) was an Italian political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist. A critic of modern rationalism and apologist of classical antiquity, Vico's magnum opus is Scienza Nuova (1725), often published in English as New Science.
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“Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.”
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“Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.”
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