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The City of the Sun
Tommaso Campanella
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A dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers and a Genoese Sea-captain, about the latter's voyage to a utopian city.
A dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers and a Genoese Sea-captain, about the latter's voyage to a utopian city.
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G.M. Under such circumstances no one will be willing to labor, while he expects others to work, on the fruit of whose labors he can live, as Aristotle argues against Plato.
Capt. I do not know how to deal with that argument, but I declare to you that they burn with so great a love for their fatherland, as I could scarcely have believed possible; and indeed with much more than the histories tell us belonged to the Romans, who fell willingly for their country, inasmuch as they have to a greater extent surrendered their private property. I think truly that the friars and monks and clergy of our country, if they were not weakened by love for their kindred and friends or by the ambition to rise to higher dignities, would be less fond of property, and more imbued with a spirit of charity toward all, as it was in the time of the apostles, and is now in a great many cases.
G.M. St. Augustine may say that, but I say that among this race of . . . Read More
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Campanella almost had me - I almost wanted to up and move to the City of the Sun. However, his long winded explanations about their Old Testement style war-mongering (he'd say it differently, but it is what it is) lost me. I was 100% until I got to the last 1/3 of the book. More's Utopia is still th
Siyaset teorileri üzerine okunmasi ve diger eserlerle zihnen kiyasi, dusun dunyasi bakimindan yararli olabilir.
Thomas More'un Utopia'sından sonra en çok ismi anılan ve benim de çok merak ettiğim bir ütopya olmasına rağmen yüzde 50 hayal kırıklığına uğradım. Ortaya kabaca tasarlanmış bir ütopya çıkmış. Yazar ideal devlet yapısından çok Güneş Ülkesi'nin duvar ve binalarını anlatmaya ayırmış çabasının önemli bi
This book is a curious time capsule. A look at what somebody at the turn of the 17th century might think of as the perfect society, although I'm nowhere near knowledgeable enough to say how common these views really were. Skimming Campanella's wikipedia page tells me he was imprisoned by the Catholi