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| Author(s): |
Antonio Jose Pereira Filho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2005-03-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria das Gracas de Souza;
Humberto Aparecido de Oliveira Guido;
Franklin Leopoldo e Silva
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| Advisor: | Maria das Gracas de Souza |
| Abstract | |
The present work intends to show how the rapports between language and práxis make up the core of Giambattista Vicos philosophical project. It is a complex project; and it is accomplished at different moments from a confront with the mentalist conception of language. Vico considers Descartes method and the Port-Royal logicism, the so-called linguistic Cartesianism, an extremely reductionist perspective that set aside the social and the expressive dimension of linguistic phenomena. The aims of the present work is to trace back the main moments of Vicos project (what shall be done through an analysis of Vicos first works), show how it appears in the Scienza Nuova, mainly in its last edition (1744); and shed light on the new perspectives of Vicos thought, compared to the philosophical tradition he wants to set himself at a distance; and, finally, point out the very place of the Italian philosopher in the linguistic studies. We uphold that the core of Vicos project consists in a new sort of rapport that the philosopher establishes between the linguistic developments, the modifications (modificazioni) of mind and of the human institutions. We shall see that the intelligibility of that process involves the creation of a new method or new critical art that, considering a conception of language which is more complex than the linguistic Cartesianism, make the construction of human institutions clear, show how it develops itself and how it operates throughout the time. (AU) | |