110 / 298
Horst Steinke
110
light the nexus between truth and certainty, between the “philosophical” uni-
versality of the ideas and the “hermeneutic-philological” historicity of the
human customs, and the institutions)» (p.180); «Attraverso questo concetto [la
storia ideale eterna
], si manifesta in modo esplicito il tentativo sistematico vi-
chiano di fondare, di sviluppare nelle sue articolazioni teoretico-conoscitive e
storico-filologiche, il nesso
verum-factum
(Through this concept [the
ideal eternal
history
], Vico’s systematic endeavor manifests itself in explicit manner, that of
founding, of developing in the theoretical-cognitive and historical-philological
articulations [of the
ideal eternal history
], the nexus of
verum-factum
)» (p. 182). See
also Cacciatore’s similar statements in his contribution
Vico: narrazione storica e
narrazione fantastica
, in
Il sapere poetico e gli universali fantastici
, cit., pp.117-139,
such as: «Essa è scienza storica nel senso moderno, è analisi e comprensione
dei fatti e dei fenomeni […] che formano il diritto, la società, la poesia, la reli-
gione, anche quando e proprio quando questo bagaglio di tradizioni sembra
essere letteralmente esploso in un pulviscolo di insignificanti frammenti (This
[philology] is a historical science in the modern sense, is analysis and under-
standing of the facts and phenomena […] which constitute law, society,
poetry, literature, religion, furthermore and precisely when all this baggage of
traditions seems to have been pulverized literally into tiny fragments by an
explosion)» (p. 136). This contribution also appeared in Spanish as
Vico: Nar-
ración Histórica y Narración Fantástica
, trans. by J. Sánchez Espillaque, in «CsV»,
23-24, 2009-2010, pp. 15-31.
189
The net metaphor is borrowed from V. Hösle,
Einleitung
, cit., p. CXIV.
190
Philosophy,
Chapter 1, § 1.
191
Ibid.
, Chapter 12, § 3.
192
Ibid.
, Chapter 16, § 1.
193
Ibid.
, Chapter 16, § 1.
194
Ibid.
, Chapter 20: «[T]hey [the jurists] respond that the laws are social in
some sense, either in regard to the community or to the individual as part of a
community».
195
As Lomonaco wrote: «Il
verum
per l’uomo ha bisogno di verifiche e di
confronti con le circonstanze reali (For humans, the
true
requires verification
by, and confrontation with, the actual circumstances)» (Id.,
Ragione e diritto pri-
ma delle Scienze Nuove
,
cit., p. 82).
196
Akin to its place in Vanzulli’s dichotomy.
197
Cfr. L. Pompa: «[…] neo Hegelian[s], among whom Croce was preemi-
nent, […] attributed to him the view that the content of history was wholly
necessary, our knowledge of it wholly a priori» (Id.,
Vico and the Presuppositions
of Historical Knowledge
, in
Giambattista Vico’s Science of Humanity
, cit., pp. 125-140,
p. 126). Pompa proceeds to present an interpretation that is neither empiri-