Giambattista Vico, Italian jurist, historian, and philosopher (died 1744)

Giambattista Vico

Italian philosopher (1668–1744)

Giambattista Vico 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…