On Vico's Mythology

Vico is an encyclopedic thinker. In his philosophy of history, he has created of atrue philosophy of mythology. As the part of his philosophy of history, the theory ofVico about the myth is the philosophy that is based on human development and on thebasis of discussion on the problem of human existence. Vico thinks that poetryadvanced reason. He elaborated the poetic beginning of the development of humanhistory, and revealed the source of the human being and the culture. Vico createdprecedent that research in ancient mythology by the basic of the image. At the sametime, his theory about myth not only reflected that Vico tried to define the capacity ofhuman and to affirm the influence of human rationality in social life, but also were tooppose abuse man's free will, and to oppose atrocities that absolute rationality imposeon human that absolute freedom leads to. The myth of Vico's philosophy from thehumanistic perspective to emphasize demand that humanities concern and to returntradition.