Tomaso Campanella (1568-1639) was very close to More's ideas. In his work "The Sun City" he described an ideal state very similar to More's Utopia.
Tomaso Campanella (1568-1639) was very close to More's ideas. In his work "The Sun City" he described an ideal state very similar to More's Utopia.
He suggested that everybody should combine labor with education, in particular he took much consideration to educating children, which were to be taken from their parents and brought up in special schools.
Conclusions:
to conclude the summary of this period in the history of the mankind it is necessary to state that:
human's views of the world and his position in it were changed;
a deep imprint on the character of all subsequent science and philosophy has been imposed;
the philosophical ideas of Antiquity were born anew, the old spontaneous materialist tendencies were revived on a new historic-cultural soil enriched by the influence of the Mediaeval Culture;
there was the emergence and strengthening of the university science along with monastery schools;
the needs of socio- historical practice gave a powerful impulse to the development of the natural sciences and the humanities in which the foundations of the experimental natural science of the Modern Ages were laid.
Questions for express-control
1. What is the key word for philosophy and culture of the Renaissance?
2. What poet, the author of sonnets dedicated to Laura, was the founder of humanism?
3. The doctrine stating that God and nature is a single whole is called…
Who is the author of the work “Utopia”?
Who was the founder of political philosophy in the Renaissance epoch?
