After his primary education was completed, Vico served as a private tutor to the nephews of the bishop of Ischia. |
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One of the tasks Vico set himself in The New Science was to critique both Cartesian and Spinozist thought. |
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Prominent Italian philosophers include Cesare Beccaria, Giordano Bruno, Benedetto Croce, Marsilio Ficino, and Giambattista Vico. |
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In that vein, Vico proposed a social need for religion, for a supernatural Divine Providence to keep order in human society. |
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One of the clearest and earliest forms of this argument is available in the De Italorum Sapientia, where Vico argues that. |
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Vico would reproduce this argument consistently throughout his works, and would use it as a central tenet of the Scienza Nuova. |
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