Vico, a commune in the Corse-du-Sud département of France
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Vico reminds the students that the human mind has divine origins and a near-divine nature which requires only educating through a pursuit of studies which is focused on the ultimate well-being of the whole human race.
Vico cautions that self-improvement, self-advancement, self-glorification or other self-oriented goals are not the purpose of education, but rather its goals lie beyond and outside the self, instead being directed by and toward God and toward the betterment of the human race through the accomplishments of the monumental and outstanding.
Vico perceived the problems inherent to the Cartesian model based on systematic doubt, the meditative power of the mind, and on the devaluing of probability, which as it turned out, would permeate all aspects of modern western culture and would become the epistemological paradigm for understanding human history, existence, and behavior.
In 1699, Vico became professor of rhetoric at the Univ. of Naples, and in 1734 he was appointed historiographer to the king of Naples.
Vico is regarded by many as the first modern historian; he was the first to formulate a systematic method of historical research, and he developed a theory of history that was far in advance of his times.
Vico urged the study of language, mythology, and tradition as techniques for the investigation of history.
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