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According to Vico, man started out as a solitary hunter-gatherer who had immense physical and imaginative powers, but had no language and, indeed, no thought!
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Primitive man possessed no shared experience, if by experience we mean conscious memory of events.
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The ball got rolling once a huge primal storm broke out over the whole “great forest of the earth” where these men were traipsing.
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In short, man unconsciously invented culture and society out of the awe and fear that the storm drummed up inside of him.
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By the time we get to the age of heroes, language has evolved from grunts of fretful onomatopoeia like “Jove!” into something more like military commands.
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Vico uses the example of heraldry: pictures on a flag that represent the virility and joie de vivre of the family or ethnos.
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in the age of heroes, prominent men commanded less powerful men through unquestioned directives;
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The third stage, the age of men, sees the flowering of man’s reason.
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the age of men, concern with force of argument overrides any reliance on physical force. Anything can and is questioned. We are all equal in our rationality (in theory).
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