[New-Poetry] Vico

[Anny Ballardini]

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Throughout this book it will be shown that as much as the poets had first sensed in the way of vulgar wisdom, the philosophers later understood in the way of esoteric wisdom: so that the former may be said to have been the sense and the latter the intellect of the human race. What Aristotle [On the Soul 432a7f] said of the individual man is therefore true of the race in general: Nihil est in intellectu quin prius fuerit in sensu. That is, the human mind does not understand anything of which it has had no previous impression (which our modern metaphysicians call 'occasion') from the senses. Now the mind uses the intellect when, from something it senses, it gathers something which does not fall under the senses: and this is the proper meaning of the Latin verb intelligere.

Giambattista Vico, The New Science


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