Daniel Canaris is a research fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Sun Yat-Sen University. After receiving his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2017, he has held appointments in Australia, Germany and England. His current work focuses on the founder of the Jesuit China mission, Michele Ruggieri (1543-1607).

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: resurrecting the Chinese fossil‘A monstrous Chinese fossil’China and Confucianism in Vico’s NaplesVico and Jesuit accommodationismRevisiting the rozza e goffa philosophy of Vico’s ConfuciusPlan of this workChapter 1: Providence and Rome in the Diritto universaleRetheologising VicoBackground to grace and providence in Vico’s Diritto universaleProvidence between fate and chanceChapter 2: The problem of China in early modern historiographyPlacing China in a Judaeo-Christian metanarrativeDevelopment of the Jesuit view of ChinaChapter 3: The Scythian exception in the Diritto universaleThe Romans of the EastThe Scythians in early modern historiography and ethnographyVico’s Scythians and Noachide monotheismChapter 4: Towards a new theological valorisation of ChinaNormalising the ScythiansA hermeneutic of ignoranceDemystifying Chinese ideogramsRe-evaluating Jesuit accommodationismChapter 5: Poetic truth and Christian truthScienza versus coscienzaOntological truths and teologia civile ragionataConclusion: La discoverta del vero ConfucioBibliographyIndex

Daniel Canaris is a research fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Sun Yat-Sen University. After receiving his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2017, he has held appointments in Australia, Germany and England. His current work focuses on the founder of the Jesuit China mission, Michele Ruggieri (1543-1607).

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: resurrecting the Chinese fossil‘A monstrous Chinese fossil’China and Confucianism in Vico’s NaplesVico and Jesuit accommodationismRevisiting the rozza e goffa philosophy of Vico’s ConfuciusPlan of this workChapter 1: Providence and Rome in the Diritto universaleRetheologising VicoBackground to grace and providence in Vico’s Diritto universaleProvidence between fate and chanceChapter 2: The problem of China in early modern historiographyPlacing China in a Judaeo-Christian metanarrativeDevelopment of the Jesuit view of ChinaChapter 3: The Scythian exception in the Diritto universaleThe Romans of the EastThe Scythians in early modern historiography and ethnographyVico’s Scythians and Noachide monotheismChapter 4: Towards a new theological valorisation of ChinaNormalising the ScythiansA hermeneutic of ignoranceDemystifying Chinese ideogramsRe-evaluating Jesuit accommodationismChapter 5: Poetic truth and Christian truthScienza versus coscienzaOntological truths and teologia civile ragionataConclusion: La discoverta del vero ConfucioBibliographyIndex

Daniel Canaris is a research fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Sun Yat-Sen University. After receiving his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2017, he has held appointments in Australia, Germany and England. His current work focuses on the founder of the Jesuit China mission, Michele Ruggieri (1543-1607).

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: resurrecting the Chinese fossil‘A monstrous Chinese fossil’China and Confucianism in Vico’s NaplesVico and Jesuit accommodationismRevisiting the rozza e goffa philosophy of Vico’s ConfuciusPlan of this workChapter 1: Providence and Rome in the Diritto universaleRetheologising VicoBackground to grace and providence in Vico’s Diritto universaleProvidence between fate and chanceChapter 2: The problem of China in early modern historiographyPlacing China in a Judaeo-Christian metanarrativeDevelopment of the Jesuit view of ChinaChapter 3: The Scythian exception in the Diritto universaleThe Romans of the EastThe Scythians in early modern historiography and ethnographyVico’s Scythians and Noachide monotheismChapter 4: Towards a new theological valorisation of ChinaNormalising the ScythiansA hermeneutic of ignoranceDemystifying Chinese ideogramsRe-evaluating Jesuit accommodationismChapter 5: Poetic truth and Christian truthScienza versus coscienzaOntological truths and teologia civile ragionataConclusion: La discoverta del vero ConfucioBibliographyIndex