چكيده لاتين :
This paper reviews Vico’s idea of New science. It will be described
that Vico developed his science along seven different branches. First,
he proposed to make it a “rational civil theology of divine providence”.
Second, his science was to be a “philosophy of authority”. In the third
place, it was to be a “history of human ideas”. The remaining four
branches of the new science led to a speculative reconstruction of world
history, including such matters as the span of time required for each
period, the courses the nations run, the common elements of law and
custom among the peoples, and finally, the principles of universal history.
Then, I will remark how Vico came to his investigations through the study
of jurisprudence, and developed the implications of the new science more
completely in that direction and in the field of political thought than in
most others.
