| 20th WCP: Vico's New Science: The Unity of Piety and Wisdom (2289 words) |
 | By means of an examination of three principle aspects of Vico’s science, and by looking to his conception of the origin of the most rudimentary institutions of humanity, primordial piety— fear of the mythic other— is shown to be the origin of poetic wisdom. |
| Vico's science is, at one and the same time, a science of concrete human praxis, since it is a science of the certain, and a science of divine providence, since it is a science of the true. |
| Vico's science teaches that the relation of the thinker to Being is not a frontal relation of the spectator to the spectacle, it is rather one in which the thinker finds this whole recurring within his own mind, as something that modulates and modifies his mind. |
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