A questão do conhecimento em Vico como fundamento para uma filosofia da história, a partir do conceito de natureza humana

Abstract

Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) founded a new sacience, the science of history. In order to find a philosophical theory to guide the understanding of history, one should try to answer the philosophical question of the possibility of history, understood as the succession of human achievement over time, have some rational principle to guide the reading, and if the succession of the historical facts are in themselves true evidence of some rational chain. According to Vico, history is in itself the development of an aspiration for justice. Here, without notice, is already in the philosophy of history. The philosophy of history is a philosophical discipline that deals with the succession of historical events. The scholar who dwells in meditation on the history of the humanity seeks to understand what happens from one to tell himself, telling himself again, from certain constants in human behavior, according to the dictates of know thyself the deeds of the ancestors.