Giambattista Vico on Natural Law: Rhetoric, Religion and Sensus Communis
John Schaeffer, "Giambattista Vico on Natural Law: Rhetoric, Religion and Sensus Communis"
English | ISBN: 036767131X | 2020 | 132 pages | EPUB | 431 KB
English | ISBN: 036767131X | 2020 | 132 pages | EPUB | 431 KB
This book introduces the thought of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) into the discussion about natural law. For many critics, natural law is not natural but a façade behind which lurks the supernatural – that is, revealed religion. While current notions of natural law are based on either Aristotelian/Thomistic principles or on Enlightenment rationalism, the book shows how Vico was the only natural law thinker to draw on the Roman legal tradition, rather than on Greek or Enlightenment philosophy. Specifically, the book addresses how Vico, drawing his inspiration from Roman history, incorporated both rhetoric and religion into a dynamic concept of natural law grounded in what he called the
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