The project of this paper is a reconstruction of the philosophy of Giambattista Vico via its confrontation with that of R. G. Collingwood. The aims are twofold: the first part seeks to rescue Vico’s peculiar form of what I call philosophical ‘materiality’ from the later idealist universal histories that would subsume him, while the second explores Vico’s idea of divine providence, particularly his differentiation between it and fate. Materiality and divine providence are importantly linked. I argue that any ‘return’ to Vico and his interest in a philosophically charged reception history, represents a rejection of the Cartesian grounding of modern philosophy, in the name of another potentiality for philosophical reflection that is grounded in the notion of materiality and divine providence. Although unambiguously influenced by Hegelian and in particular Crocean idealism, the fundamental hopes of Collingwood’s philosophy – namely the staving off of modernity’s regression into barbarism – resonates with this Vichean potentiality.

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Vico，Collingwood和过去的重要性

本文的项目是通过与RG Collingwood的对抗来重构Giambattista Vico的哲学。目的是双重的：第一部分试图从后来的唯心主义普遍主义历史中拯救维科的独特形式，即我所谓的哲学“物质性”，而第二部分则探讨维科的神圣天意，特别是维科的天意。 。物质和神圣的天意之间有着重要的联系。我认为，维科的任何“回归”以及他对充满哲学色彩的接受历史的兴趣，都代表了对另一种以物质性和神圣天意为基础的哲学反思的可能性的拒绝，即对现代哲学的笛卡尔基础的拒绝。 。