Giambattista Vico · Civilisations

The True and the Made

Vico’s revolutionary principle - that we can truly know only what we ourselves have made - and how it founded a distinctive way of knowing the human world.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned Vico’s verum-factum principle: that we can know what we make. Explain the principle and its consequence - that the human world is more knowable to us than the natural world - in your own words.

Leads to Karl Marx.

epoché — a humanities education that remembers you.