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Read Giambattista Vico.

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>>14591269
>No.

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>>14591269
>Giambattista Vico? Of course I've read the Scienza Nuova, how could you tell? It is in my top 5 philosophical works of all time. Do you want me to proceed exposing the principle of Verum factum for your benefit?

>> No.14591610

>>14591269
Why tho?

>> No.14591802

>>14591269
Yes, I want to read him. What does he mean by heroic stage though? I think that the divine and the human stage are pretty spot-on (seeing the obvious process of humanization, politization of history, art and all human actvities)

>> No.14592250

Bump

>> No.14592334

>>14591329
Incredibly based.

>>14591802
Divine age is when the entire young culture lives in terrible fear of the gods who they think literally walk the Earth. Think Merovingian Europe and Mycenaean Greece. Heroic age is when the culture has matured a bit and the nobles become more headstrong and warlike, it is an age of strong men and leaders and religious wars. It begins with the Crusades in Europe and the Trojan War in Greece, up until let's say Descartes and the pre-Socratics respectively. After this point is the age of men. Divine age governments are always theocratic, heroic age governments are always aristocratic, but the age of men always declines into democracy before going back to monarchy.

>> No.14592793

>>14592334
Interesting, does he imply then a decline through the historical process?