Giambattista Vico's Three Courses of Nations The Course of: The Gods The Warriors The People Nature: Creative Heroic Human Customs: Religious Choleric & Punctilious Dutiful Natural Law: Law of Divinity Law of Force Law of Reason Government: Theocratic Aristocratic Human Language: Mental Language Heroic Blazenings Articulate Speech Characters: Divine Hieroglyphs Heroic Characters Vulgar Characters Jurisprudence: Mystic Theology [Might makes Right] [Truth makes Right] Authority: Divine (Unaccountable) Formulae of the Laws Human Wisdom of the Senate: Property Ownership Guardianship Reputation for Wisdom Reason: Divine (Revealed) State Reason (Experts) Natural Reason Judgements: Divine Judgements Ordinary Judgements Extra-Ordinary Judgements Sects of Time: Religious Times Punctilious Times Civil/Modest Times Similar to: The Symbolic Paradigm The Natural Paradigm

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