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 It would be difficult to find a figure in the Western tradition who embodies the core elements of Christian Humanism as a modern paideia more than the Italian philosopher, Giambattista Vico. In his seminal text, On the Study Methods of Our Times, Vico sketches the intellectual virtues and vices of his own modern age (early 18th century) as compared to the ancients. While he is careful to avoid a simple nostalgia for a golden philosophical past, as it were, it is his contention that the modern Cartesian epistemology of doubt and certainty does not provide adequate explanatory power for the actual lives of human beings in relation to God, others, and the world. It would be difficult to find a figure in the Western tradition who embodies the core elements of Christian Humanism as a modern paideia more than the Italian philosopher, Giambattista Vico. In his seminal text, On the Study Methods of Our Times, Vico sketches the intellectual virtues and vices of his own modern age (early 18th century) as compared to the ancients. While he is careful to avoid a simple nostalgia for a golden philosophical past, as it were, it is his contention that the modern Cartesian epistemology of doubt and certainty does not provide adequate explanatory power for the actual lives of human beings in relation to God, others, and the world.
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