PRISCILA ARAGÃO ZANINETTI

The conception of history established by Giambattista Vico, in his work Scienza Nuova (New Science), seems to combine in itself distinct and perhaps ambivalent temporal structures. Vico works on the concept of "historical time”, which concerns the time period of human creations. This concept has a time magnitude called “eternity”, an inaccessible way to experience which lies behind the idea of “ideal eternal history”. The above-named time structures, when combined in a conception of history, could ensure the scientific approach of historical knowledge, regardless of the Cartesian rationalism. The connection of such concepts also retrieves two argumentative axes of Vico's work: "theory of knowledge” and “metaphysics”, whose details this project aims to dwell on.