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Two authors from The Age of Reason and Enlightenment, in keeping with the spirit of their times, envisioned their own philosophical and intellectual utopias. Tomasso Campanella, a Calabrian monk, published The City of the Sun in 1623, and Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis appeared in 1627. Campanella was a student of logic and physics who formulated the first scientifically based socialistic system--one that furnished a model for subsequent ideal communities. Bacon focused on politics and philosophy, emphasizing the duty of the state toward science. Despite the authors' differences in setting and treatment, each of these seventeenth-century classics mirrors the period's prevailing thought, reflecting the idealism of an age and its revolutionary trends in philosophy.
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Bacon's account of an ideal state reveals both practical methods and unique fantasy; a utopia, described with philosophical and rosicrucian undertones. An excellent story of a sailor/explorer that accidently finds Atlantis. Even though considered incomplete by some, this book has proven to be one of Francis Bacon's best works. Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decifer. This eBook is printable.
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In keeping with the spirit of their times, two writers from The Age of Reason and Enlightenment envisioned their own philosophical and intellectual utopias. Tomasso Campanella, a Calabrian monk, published The City of the Sun in 1623, and Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis appeared in 1627. Campanella was a student of logic and physics; Bacon focused on politics and philosophy. Despite differences in setting and treatment, both authors employed the latest methods of scientific experimentation to restructure the social order, and both works abound in imaginative thought and expression. Campanella formulated the first scientifically based socialistic system -- one that furnished a model for subsequent ideal communities. The inhabitants of his city work toward the common good, entrust their government to the wisest and ablest, and prize equality and self-sacrifice for the community's sake. Bacon focuses on the duty of the state toward science, and his projections for state-sponsored research anticipate many advances in medicine and surgery, meteorology, and machinery. England's Royal Society and similar organizations dedicated to scientific progress are regarded as the offspring of Bacon's utopian visions. Each of these seventeenth-century classics mirrors the period's idealism and its revolutionary trends in thought. Both are appropriate for courses in philosophy, literature, and political science.
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Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis, published in 1627, and Campanella's The City of the Sun, which appeared four years earlier, are two of the many utopian schemes that proliferated in the 17th century. Bacon's is more of sketch, outlining the role the state should play in promoting science, while ignoring the ways such could be achieve, while the Calabrian monk Campanella pays more attention to the moral and philosophical basis upon which the social order should be premised. A brief introduction is included, taken (in abridged form) from the 1901 Tudor Publishing Co. text that contained these utopias, as well as Rousseau's Social Contract and More's Utopia Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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