Concordanze e Indici di frequenza dei Principj di una scienza nuova-- 1725 di Giambattista Vico (review)

408 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY tained in this work in a short space, but perhaps what has been said above will offer a sense of Mignini's view. By the last chapter, if not before, this interpretation of Spinoza begins to make his philosophy sound very much like that of Kant in the third Critique. Indeed, the quote above could just as well be a statement of the general thesis of Kant's work and the title of Mignini's last chapter is just the titles of the two parts of the Kritik der Urteilskraft put in reverse order. But the sense in which Spinoza, so interpreted, anticipates Kant's theory of the aesthetic and teleological judgment is not discussed in the work. Another topic of great interest would be an exploration of the similarity between Spinoza's conception of art and ingenium (as presented in Mignini's interpretation) and the relation between art and ingenium as it exists in the tradition of humanist thought in the Italian Renaissance. Mignini mentions the connection of Spinoza's view to Gracian's discussion of ingenium. The connection and possible line of influence with the humanist tradition might be traced back through the thought of Gracian and his very suggestive theory of the importance of ingenium for a theory of human education. Although the interpretation of Spinoza's thought in Mignini's work may be too radical for some, it is well written and systematically argued. It attempts not only to interpret Spinoza, but to throw light on the philosophical ideas themselves, ideas of which we are very much in need. DONALD PHILLIP VERENE Emory University Concordanze e Indici di frequenza dei Principj di una scienza nuova--~ 725 di Giambattista Vico. Compiled by Aldo Duro. Vol. XXV of Lessico Intellettuale Europeo. Rome: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1981. Pp. xxv; 616. This volume is a concordance to Vico's New Science of 17~5, i.e., to what is commonly referred to as Vico's Scienza nuova prima or first New Science. This work differs considerably from Vico's Scienza nuova seconda or second New Science, written in t73o and revised in 1744, from which the standard English translation of Bergin and Fisch is made. The title, New Science, as it occurs in contemporary Vico literature nearly always refers to this second version, not that of x725. AIdo Duro's concordance is a companion volume to the anastatic or facsimile edition of the 1725 New Science published earlier by Tullio Gregory: Principj di una scienza nuova intorno alia natura deUe nazioni (Rome: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1979). These two volumes, the concordance and facsimile edition of the 1725 New Science, are part of a general program of research of the Centro del Lessico Intellettuale Europeo directed by Tullio Gregory that concerns philosophical terminology of the Seicento and Settecento in Europe and that specifically concerns development of a Lessico vichiano, a Vico lexicon. The page and line numbers in Duro's concordance refer to those of the original as reproduced in Gregory's facsimile edition. The concordance includes not only the terms of Vico's Italian text but those Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac, Spanish, BOOK REVIEWS 409 and German words that Vico uses. FoLlowing the concordance are two computerbased lists of word frequencies; but of greatest value is the concordance itself. It is a concordance in the true sense of the word; that is, it is an alphabetical arrangement of the principal words of the text that reprints for each word the passage in which it occurs. This work is indispensable for any scholar working on Vico's thought. What a great tool it will be when such also exists for the Scienza nuova of 173o/1744 and Vico's other works. DONALD PHILLIP VERENE Emory University J. David Hoeveler, Jr. James McCosh and the Scottish Intellectual Tradition: from Glasgow to Princeton. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, t981. Pp xiv + 374. $25.00 James McCosh's greatest fault lay in trying to keep too many things right: student morals; presbyterianism; the off-license habits of workers; Scottish philosophy-from Hutcheson to Hamilton; evolutionary or "developmental" science; university curricula; and finally American philosophy itself. ("I am anxious...