On Humanistic Education : Six Inaugural Orations, 1699-1707 / Giambattista Vico.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vico, Giambattista, author.

Contributor:

Pinton, Giorgio A.

Shippee, Arthur W.

Verene, Donald Phillip.

Standardized Title:

Orazioni inaugurali, I-VI. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Education, Humanistic--Early works to 1800.

Education, Humanistic.

Theology--Early works to 1800.

Theology.

Philosophy--Early works to 1800.

Philosophy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Vico's earliest extant scholarly works, the six orations on humanistic education, offer the first statement of ideas that Vico would continue to refine throughout his life. Delivered between 1699 and 1707 to usher in the new academic year at the University of Naples, the orations are brought together here for the first time in English in an authoritative translation based on Gian Galeazzo Visconti's 1982 Latin/Italian edition.In the lectures, Vico draws liberally on the classical philosophical and legal traditions as he explores the relationship between the Greek dictum "Know thyself" and liberal education. As he sets forth the values and goals of a humanist curriculum, Vico reveals the beginnings of the anti-Cartesian position he will pursue in On the Study Methods of Our Time (1709). Also found in the orations are glimpses of Vico's later views on the theory of interpretation and on the nature of language, imagination, and human creativity, along with many themes that were to be fully developed in his magnum opus, the New Science (1744).On Humanistic Education joins a number of translations of Vico's works available in paperback from Cornell-On the Study Methods of Our Time, On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, the New Science, and The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico. It will be welcomed by Vichians and their students, intellectual historians, and others in the fields of philosophy, literary theory, history and methods of education, classics, and rhetoric.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: On Humanistic Education / Verene, Donald Phillip

Translators' Note

On Humanistic Education

On Self-Knowledge

On Virtue and Wisdom

On True Learning

On Education for the Common Good

On the Liberal Arts and Political Power

On the Proper Order of Studies

Appendix I. Goals of the Various Studies Suitable to Human Nature

Appendix II. History of the Latin Manuscripts

List of Sources Cited

General Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-154) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-1728-6

OCLC:

1080550191