Vico and the Phenomenology of the Moral Sphere Robert Welsh Jordan The essay that follows was presented at the meeting on "Vico and Psychology II" on January 30, 1976 in "Vico and Contemporary Thought, A Conference Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the New Science," sponsored by the Institute for Vico Studies, Casa Italiana of Columbia University, and the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. It was printed in the journal Social Research, 43 Number 3 (Autumn, 1976) 520-531. The page numbering of the printed version is indicated here by bold face numbers enclosed in angle brackets within the text. That number and the succeeding one (Winter, 1976) were devoted entirely to printing the presentations at this conference. SCREEN DISPLAY. Browsers that display pages on this site with something very like the originally intended colors are Opera and Google. The others that I am familiar with convert the pages to standard black foreground on light background. Even Microsoft's Internet Explorer does that although the pages were generated using Microsoft's Front Page 2003. Among word processors, Open Office will display pretty much as meant, Word will not. PRINTING. Pages should print in the usual manner: black foreground on light background despite the screen display colors. Vico and the Phenomenology of the Moral Sphere <520> Vico's principle that to be true is the same as to be made led him, in the work we are celebrating, to conceive a comprehensive field of investigation for a new science. It is a science whose task is to