LA CITE DU SOLEIL

La Cite du Soleil" par Tommaso Campanella. Tommaso Campanella etait un dominicain et philosophe italien (1568-1639).

La Cité Du Soleil

Depuis toujours, Campanella cherche à promouvoir un "aggiornamento" de la philosophie catholique : un mariage entre théologie, philosophie platonicienne et science contemporaine. C'est qu'il est parfaitement conscient que la science aristotélicienne a fait son temps, et qu'il est urgent d'ouvrir les fenêtres. Depuis au moins 1608, il est en correspondance avec Galilée (qui ne lui répond jamais directement). Sans être lui-même un copernicien, il est convaincu de la caducité d'Aristote. Lorsque, en 1616, les enquêtes de l'Inquisition commencent contre Galilée, le Cardinal Caetani, membre de la commission, se tourne vers Campanella pour connaître son opinion (un prisonnier de l'Inquisition consulté par un cardinal de la Commission de l'Index !). En réponse, il adresse à Caetani cette Apologia où il établit, dans la forme d'une disputation scolastique, que la nouvelle philosophie de Galilée non seulement ne contrarie pas l'Ecriture, mais qu'elle répond même mieux au besoin d'une philosophie naturelle authentiquement chrétienne. L'ouvrage sera imprimé en Allemagne dès 1616 et diffusé dans toute l'Europe.

Apologie De Galilee

A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The term was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the south Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South America. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia, which dominates the fictional literature. Dystopian fiction (sometimes combined with, but distinct from, apocalyptic fiction) offers the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos.

This book contents:

The Republic by Plato

Utopia by Thomas More

The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella

The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

Looking Backward: 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Iron Heel by Jack London

We by Evgeny Zamyatin

Utopia. Сlassic collection. Philosophical and fiction works. From Plato to Bellamy - The Republic, The New Atlantis, The Iron Heel, Looking Backward: 2000–1887, We and others

The City of the Sun is a dialogue between "a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller and a Genoese Sea-Captain." The book describes a theocratic society where goods, women and children are held in common. It also resembles the City of Adocentyn in the Picatrix, an Arabic guide to magical town planning. In the final part of the work, Campanella prophesies - in the veiled language of astrology - that the Spanish kings, in alliance with the Pope, are destined to be the instruments of a Divine Plan: the final victory of the True Faith and its diffusion in the whole world.

La Cité du Soleil

A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The term was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the south Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South America. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia, which dominates the fictional literature. Dystopian fiction (sometimes combined with, but distinct from, apocalyptic fiction) offers the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos.

This book contents:

The Republic by Plato

Utopia by Thomas More

The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella

The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

Looking Backward: 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Iron Heel by Jack London

We by Evgeny Zamyatin

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Utopia. Сlassic collection. Philosophical and fiction works. From Plato to Orwell - The Republic, The New Atlantis, The Iron Heel, Animal Farm, Looking Backward: 2000–1887, We, 1984 and others

SOMMAIREPréface : Sur la nécessité, l'utilité et la cohérence de cet ouvrageChap 1 : Fondements et règles universels de toutes les principautés et de toutes les seigneuries, mais surtout de la monarchie universelle du MessieChap 2 : Que la royauté et le sacerdoce s'accordent parfaitement dans le même sujet, selon Dieu, selon le prince et selon les peuplesChap 3 : Que la félicité de l'âge d'or existerait si un seul homme était à la fois prêtre et prince du monde entier ...Chap 4 : Jésus, le Messie et notre Seigneur, est venu au monde pour rétablir l'âge heureuxChap 5 : Proposition universelle sur l'unité du règne du MessieChap 6 : Opinions opposées des hérétiques et des catholiques sur le règne du ChristChap 7 : Le Christ est la raison éternelle enfin incarnée dans le tempsChap 8 : Le christ a laissé dans l'Eglise le tribunal ecclésiastique et le tribunal politiqueChap 9 : Le Christ a été roi dans le spirituel et le temporelChap 10 : Le Christ a laissé dans son royaume le glaive spirituel et le glaive matériel Chap 11 : Réponses aux arguments principauxChap 12 : Le christianisme est un et non multipleChap 13 : Réponse aux arguments de ceux qui nient le pouvoir suprême -- Appendice : Double glose de l'Apôtre pour la formule, le pape peut toutChap 14 : Tous les règnes du monde ont été institués par le Christ DieuChap 15 : Du droit de l'empereur sur le monde entier et du droit des autres princesChap 16 : Pour cette raison le pape peut être seigneur dans le temporelChap 17 : En quoi consiste la réforme des possessions humaines introduite par l'EvangileChap 18 : Discours au sujet des droits du roi catholique

Monarchie du Messie

"G. M. Prithee, now, tell me what happened to you during that voyage?

Capt. I have already told you how I wandered over the whole earth. In the course of my journeying I came to Taprobane, and was compelled to go ashore at a place, where through fear of the inhabitants I remained in a wood. When I stepped out of this I found myself on a large plain immediately under the equator.

G. M. And what befell you here?

Capt. I came upon a large crowd of men and armed women, many of whom did not understand our language, and they conducted me forthwith to the City of the Sun.

G. M. Tell me after what plan this city is built and how it is governed.

Capt. The greater part of the city is built upon a high hill, which rises from an extensive plain, but several of its circles extend for some distance beyond the base of the hill, which is of such a size that the diameter of the city is upward of two miles, so that its circumference becomes about seven. On account of the humped shape of the mountain, however, the diameter of the city is really more than if it were built on a plain.

It is divided into seven rings or huge circles named from the seven planets, and the way from one to the other of these is by four streets and through four gates, that look toward the four points of the compass. Furthermore, it is so built that if the first circle were stormed, it would of necessity entail a double amount of energy to storm the second; still more to storm the third; and in each succeeding case the strength and energy would have to be doubled; so that he who wishes to capture that city must, as it were, storm it seven times. For my own part, however, I think that not even the first wall could be occupied, so thick are the earthworks and so well fortified is it with breastworks, towers, guns, and ditches..."

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