Natural Law and Equity in Giambattista Vico’s «science»

Abstract

This essay emphazises as «natural law» represents the core of the concept of «science» in Giambattista Vico. This philosopher, by refusing skepticism on the one hand, and the doctrine of natural law on the other, makes of natural law the focus of various questions, from politics to jurisprudence, from «equity» to the «Reason of State».

Keywords

• natural law
• social conflict
• politics
• equity
• reason of state