PHILOSOPHER

Giambattista Vico

1668 - 1744

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Giambattista Vico (born Giovan Battista Vico ; Italian: [ˈviko]; 23 June 1668 – 23 January 1744) was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist during the Italian Enlightenment. He criticized the expansion and development of modern rationalism, finding Cartesian analysis and other types of reductionism impractical to human life, and he was an apologist for classical antiquity and the Renaissance humanities, in addition to being the first expositor of the fundamentals of social science and of semiotics. He is recognised as one of the first Counter-Enlightenment figures in history. The Latin aphorism "Verum esse ipsum factum" ("truth is itself something made") coined by Vico is an early instance of constructivist epistemology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giambattista Vico is the 136th most popular philosopher (up from 140th in 2019), the 371st most popular biography from Italy (down from 332nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Italian Philosopher.

Giambattista Vico is most famous for his theory of the cyclical nature of history.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Giambattista Vico ranks 136 out of 1,267. Before him are Simone Weil, Joseph Priestley, John Wycliffe, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Martin Buber, and Zygmunt Bauman. After him are Tommaso Campanella, Philo, Charles Fourier, Duns Scotus, Baron d'Holbach, and Mozi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1668, Giambattista Vico ranks 2. Before him is François Couperin. After him are Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Herman Boerhaave, Alain-René Lesage, Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Francesco Gasparini, John George IV, Elector of Saxony, Sultan Husayn, Louis, Prince of Condé, Apostolo Zeno, and Petr Brandl. Among people deceased in 1744, Giambattista Vico ranks 2. Before him is Anders Celsius. After him are Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Alexander Pope, Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, Giuseppe Guarneri, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, André Campra, Leonardo Leo, Marie Anne de Mailly, John Theophilus Desaguliers, and Antiochus Kantemir.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giambattista Vico ranks 371 out of 5,161. Before him are Dino Zoff (1942), Michelangelo Antonioni (1912), Grazia Deledda (1871), Riccardo Muti (1941), Gianni Versace (1946), and Dario Fo (1926). After him are Tommaso Campanella (1568), Herod Agrippa II (28), Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499), Pope John XI (910), Primo Levi (1919), and Atia (-85).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Giambattista Vico ranks 14. Before him are Antonio Gramsci (1891), Pliny the Elder (23), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), Boethius (480), Bonaventure (1221), and Marsilio Ficino (1433). After him are Tommaso Campanella (1568), Cesare Beccaria (1738), Alcmaeon of Croton (-510), Hippasus (-600), Theano (-600), and Julius Evola (1898).

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