Abstract

MEGALE, Claudia. The new ratio studiorum: Vico contra Arnauld. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2014, vol.28, n.56, pp.841-856. ISSN 1982-596X.

Vico shares with Arnauld’s Logique its being above all an Art de penser and, hence, like all arts, founded on experience, as well as reflection dedicated to the results to which they have led as determined by its ways of thinking. As regards the useful its criterion presided like an imposition. Conceiving, judging, reasoning, ordering and it was precisely on ordering that we took our time, it could accord to a method which brought into play one of the fundamental themes of Cartesian pedagogy. Another reflection is necessary on the sources so as to be able to understand how much Vico took from Arnauld, and to see how close he felt to Jansenist Logic which would then lead to such bitter delusion. The first source which intervened is Aristotle with his Analytics, a founding place for all the rules of logic. The gravest danger, for De ratione’s author, came from exchanging method with reality, the rules of the mens with the metaphysics of being, to such an extent that it hindered the true turning-point of modern knowledge.

Keywords : Vico; Arnauld; Logic; Cartesian Pedagogy.

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