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On the way to �Creative Empathy�: the concept of truth as a social community enterprise in G. B. Vico�s �New Science�

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There is no need to have recourse to sociology and to psychology in order to refute many worthy philosophers, in arguing that philosophical ideas, the history of philosophy, and philosophy itself, cannot be reduced to a chaotic and impersonal flux of problems and ideas. As Nietzsche says: �Little by little I have managed to form an idea of what all philosophies up to now have been: they have been the confessions of their authors, a kind of autobiographical memoirs, without their wishing it, or being aware of this�. As Nietzsche shows, besides the categories for analysing the sociology of knowledge, it is useful to take into consideration too the character factors of the individual philosophers, as constants determining not only the actual construction of theories but also, and chiefly, their intelligibility.

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  • Franco Ferrarotti, 2010. "On the way to �Creative Empathy�: the concept of truth as a social community enterprise in G. B. Vico�s �New Science�," Academicus International Scientific Journal, Entrepreneurship Training Center Albania, issue 2, pages 10-25, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:etc:journl:y:2010:i:2:p:10-25
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    1. Enrico Gandolfi, 2018. "Taking a Stand through Digital Games - An empirical procedure among consciousness, learning and participation," Academicus International Scientific Journal, Entrepreneurship Training Center Albania, issue 17, pages 62-81, March.
    2. Franco Ferrarotti, 2017. "The Estrangement of Youth and the Quest for a different Society," Academicus International Scientific Journal, Entrepreneurship Training Center Albania, issue 16, pages 9-32, July.
    3. Camelia Gradinaru, 2016. "The Technological Expansion of Sociability: Virtual Communities as Imagined Communities," Academicus International Scientific Journal, Entrepreneurship Training Center Albania, issue 14, pages 181-190, July.
    4. Franco Ferrarotti, 2011. "Bismarck�s Orphan: The Modern World and Its Destiny, from �Disenchantment� to the �Steel Cage�," Academicus International Scientific Journal, Entrepreneurship Training Center Albania, issue 4, pages 11-34, July.

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