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The Origins of Cultural History: 2 – Geisteswissenschaft and the Natural Sciences: Vico versus Descartes

Isaiah Berlin

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Symbolism - The First Struggle to Reconstruct a Universe Unknown to Us

He thinks that all kinds of primitive experiences, ample class warfare, took all kinds of imaginative forms because this was the only way in which these people could speak. By means of hieroglyphs or idiograms, hat try and convey to each other about the world round the blokstag by means of very primitive art. This conveys to us a vision of the universe which as very different from ours. The view that these people saw what we saw, but saw it less well is an extremely anti-enlightened point of view. So he does with myts: 'So game with laws'

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