The Universal Law: Jurisprudence
The Universal Law: Jurisprudence
This chapter discusses the focus of Vico's later work, moral philosophy in its broadest sense, as a science of law, custom, and history, a science of the human world. The first step in this process is his original conception of jurisprudence, developed in his three books of Universal Law, published in the 1720s, which led to the first and second versions of the New Science. To create his conception of jurisprudence as the key to the comprehension of the human world, Vico had to discover a way to pass between philosophy and philology—the two great approaches to a knowledge of the human world—and to find a resolution for the fundamental opposition between them.
Keywords: moral philosophy, Vico's later work, science of law, jurisprudence, human world, philosophy, philology
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