A Study Of Vico 's Poetic Wisdom

The core issue of this paper is Vicos poetic wisdom of thought, whosepurpose is to analyze how Vico, proposed the concept that "Creation is the truth"and for which construct a new scientific system based on the philosophy of thetraditional reason. At very beginning, the initial rationalism in around the "thinking"to determine the logical deduction, the truth as the basis, only pay attention to theform of knowledge or truth instead of constituting a reflection on the nature ofit,which means that we need the interpretation of what the poetic wisdom isaccording to Vicos text. Vicos explanation on truth is set up on the core of "Creationis the truth", which established the general rule of "poetic wisdom". According toVico, intelligence can be defined from two aspects of human intellect and will. Thelevel of reason is to set up the knowledge in the form of poetic metaphysics, whilethe level of will is following the metaphysical rules for guidance in practice andspecific historical implementation. So the poetic wisdom itself is totally a structure,which offers a historical breakthrough in "poetic" as the standard to establish ageneral principle and find the scientific system of human developing history from thisgeneral rule. We need specific analysis in the field of poetic wisdom that the poeticmetaphysics set up in the form of knowledge, as well as how activities going on to inthe guidance of gods.According to Vicos standard of truth, we may discuss the birth-process ofmetaphysics in two aspects of soul display and historical-experience occurrence. Theprocess of creation equals the process of establishing common rules by psychologicalmechanism, the concrete form of which shall be manifested through the concept ofgods. From the historical point of view, it appears that in the wild state of the originalhuman, with its own survival has established a religious or sacred system (or to beunderstood as a principle). Then the history and the mind are corresponded andunified, which constitutes a state of original thought, shaping poetic logic formetaphysics through languages; The relations between lingual meanings and itspresence is immanent and unified. We’d better show the state of the original language as the starting point, re-exam the construction on the poetic metaphysicsto found that in the process of knowledge, there must be corresponding languagesexisted as reliance. The dawn of phonetic one is a myth--to express true bymetaphor (mythos). To create the truth is to share knowledge and history, tocultivate a sharing-sense of people for the language foundation, and producing the"Argument" as the basic ways of common consciousness of ethnic. Such commonidea is molded on the mortal ideal generated by means of language, rhetoric, history,art, and many other ways, even people who do not reach to the peak of Idea maygrasp the form of the essence.More importantly, poetic metaphysics encourage people to consider thecultural-choosing issue behind this kind of poetic wisdom. Since the legislation andfoundation roles are played, even was understood as the establishment of humancivilization in the most prior driving force, Vico gives Rome culture as an ideal modelfor what we need to follow, because this rule implies the concept of the gods in itshistory process, which is the vivid performance of the "institution of the gods guide"do. Future generations of humanist emphasizing the problems of elegance oflanguage, language arts, cultural return fundamentally choose poetic attitude, whichtables and reflects on the sign, pregnant with the trend of cultural development ofModernity--we cant betray such a poetic path so called "Corsoe Ricorso", butfollowing by the gods and obtaining the history of spiritual enlightenment and whatsmore, the influence that enlightenment finally produced in other fields of activities,such as physical geography, history, customs, when extended. For pity sake, Vicosphilosophy was ignored for a long time. Growing in the atmosphere of rationalismtradition, the "Modern" people must adapt to comply with many rules of survivalprinciple, and at the same time, scientific interpretations of the world areconstructing discourse power by independent concepts, and asked people to obey.Humans broke up the early habits of religious believing and established newtool-rational worship object--this is very much similar to "Corsoe Ricorso", theregulation to history of Rome that Vico ever predicted. Doubts as to the validity,deconstruction, digestion value judgment and popularity, which makes Vicos poetic wisdom to "give up the modern philosophy, rational induced madness, history ofregression of poetic wisdom", becomes precious, and constitute the post moderndeconstruction theory has a serious reflection--Poetic original prudent,moderationand humility virtue in modern and post-modern society,should be re gain theattention.