This essay compares Vico and Bacon focusing on the role they assign to memory and how they propose to stimulate and foster this faculty in the process of educating young peoole. The two thinkers disagree in analyzing the role of mnemotechnical schemes. Ars Memoriae, according to Bacon, can still be useful, if adequately reformed. Vico, instead, doesn't believe that its practice can produce any advantage.

Vico e Bacone. Utilità e inutilità dell'Ars Memoriae

Maurizio Cambi
2020-01-01

Abstract

This essay compares Vico and Bacon focusing on the role they assign to memory and how they propose to stimulate and foster this faculty in the process of educating young peoole. The two thinkers disagree in analyzing the role of mnemotechnical schemes. Ars Memoriae, according to Bacon, can still be useful, if adequately reformed. Vico, instead, doesn't believe that its practice can produce any advantage.
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