He advocated the conjoining of philosophy, with philology in which the true or verum, is combined with the certain or certum.
He advocated the conjoining of philosophy, with philology in which the true or verum, is combined with the certain or certum. He also asserted the principle "verum ipsum factum." His first work, published in 1709, was about pedagogy, "On the Methods of the Studies of Our Time." He attributed social inequality to imperfect religion, drawing from the ideas of Pico della Mirandola. His stages of societal development begins with the "bestial", and is followed by ‘the age of the gods", "the age of the heroes" and finally "the age of men." In this final stage, class conflict leads back to primitive barbarism. It is this idea which is the inspiration for the structure of Finnegan's Wake. FTP, identify this author of On the Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, and The New Science, the proponent of the cyclical theory of history.
He advocated the conjoining of philosophy, with philology in which the true or verum, is combined with the certain or certum.
Giambattista Vico