User:Jahsonic/On New Science by Vico
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"When men are ignorant of the natural causes producing things, and cannot even explain them by analogy with similar things, they attribute their own nature to them. For example, the masses say a magnet loves iron" --axiom 32 |
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I have decided that Vico's New Science, and esp. his set of 114 axioms will be central to the development of Art and Pop. The axioms are sufficiently obscure and poetic to provide a solid foundation of thought, esp. their etymological and philological roots. Its philosophy is an embodied philosophy such as the one by George Lakoff and a spatialized philosophy such as the one by Gaston Bachelard.
- "Thus, we say head for top or beginning; front or brow, and shoulders or back, for before and behind"
The 114 axioms supplement the three basic values of human society: providence, matrimony and the immortal soul.
Nowhere is there a public domain English translation to be found, not at Wikisource, Project Gutenberg. Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max H. Fisch translated it, published in 1963 by Great Seal Books.
David Marsh's translation of New Science, recently published by Penguin Classics, and the copy I own, sadly has no index.