Love of the ancients: The shock of the new the strange career of history in the modern world

• Main Author: Filter, Patrick Stephen
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2004
• Subjects: Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744; Philosophy > Early works to 1800; Philosophers > Italy; Social historians > Italy > Biography; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/3238; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10076&context=etd_masteral
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper is intended to be a defense of historical truth. From the earliest days of philosophy of history, which many would say began with Giambattista Vico, the question of how we can validly claim to know the truth of past events has been controversial. Modern history itself grew out of the labo...