Vico, Giovanni Battista
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...the biographies of great men, or as the development of Gods will. Opposing the antihistorical elements of the prevailing Cartesianism (see Descartes, Rene ), he asserted that history is a valid object of human knowledge because man himself created history...