Vico: The First New Science

Content: The First New Science --
Idea of the Work --
The Necessity of the end and the Difficulty of the Means of Discovering A New Science --
Reasons for our meditation on this work --
Meditation on a New Science --
The defect of such a Science if based upon the maxims of the Epicureans and Stoics or the practices advocated by Plato --
This Science is meditated on the basis of the Roman jurisconsults' idea of the natural law of the gentes --
The defect of such a Science if based upon the systems of Grotius, Selden or Pufendorf --
Reasons why this Science has hitherto been lacking among the philosophers and philologists --
The necessity, both human and doctrinal, that the origins of this Science be derived from sacred history --
The difficulty of discovering the progress or continuity [proper to this Science] --
[The difficulty of discovering the origins of humanity] from the philosophers --
[The difficulty of discovering the origins of humanity] from the philologists --
The necessity to seek the principles of the nature of nations by means of a metaphysics raised to contemplate a certain common mind of all the peoples --
On the idea of a jurisprudence of mankind --
The severe difficulties of discovering [the mode of men's first ideas] --
The Principles of this Science Concerning Ideas --
The first principle of the nations is Providence --
The rule of the world of nations is vulgar wisdom --
The artificer of the world of nations is human will regulated by vulgar wisdom --
The natural order of human ideas of an eternal justice.