{"product_id":"2940014641388","title":"TOMMASSO CAMPANELLA CITY OF THE SUN [Authoritative and Unabridged NOOK Edition] The Bestselling Classic Work of Italian Utopian Philosophy THE CITY OF THE SUN by TOMMASSO CAMPANELLA (Classics of Italian Philosophy Press) NOOK","description":"TOMMASSO CAMPANELLA CITY OF THE SUN \u003cbr\u003e[Authoritative and Unabridged NOOK Edition] \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Bestselling Classic Work of Italian Utopian Philosophy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CITY OF THE SUN by TOMMASSO CAMPANELLA \u003cbr\u003e(Classics of Italian Philosophy Press) \u003cbr\u003eNOOK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eABOUT THE CITY OF THE SUN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe City of the Sun is a philosophical work by the Italian Dominican philosopher Tommaso Campanella. It is an important early utopian work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe work was written in Italian in 1602, shortly after Campanella's imprisonment for heresy and sedition. A Latin version was written in 1613–1614 and published in Frankfurt in 1623.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe City of the Sun is presented as a dialogue between \"a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller and a Genoese Sea-Captain\". Inspired by Plato's Republic and the description of Atlantis in Timaeus, it 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 grimoire of astrological magic. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEXCERPT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"They say that it is very doubtful whether the world was made from nothing, or from the ruins of other worlds, or from chaos, but they certainly think that it was made, and did not exist from eternity. Therefore they disbelieve in Aristotle, whom they consider a logican and not a philosopher. From analogies, they can draw many arguments against the eternity of the world. The sun and the stars they, so to speak, regard as the living representatives and signs of God, as the temples and holy living altars, and they honor but do not worship them. Beyond all other things they venerate the sun, but they consider no created thing worthy the adoration of worship. This they give to God alone, and thus they serve Him, that they may not come into the power of a tyrant and fall into misery by undergoing punishment by creatures of revenge. They contemplate and know God under the image of the Sun, and they call it the sign of God, His face and living image, by means of which light, heat, life, and the making of all things good and bad proceed. Therefore they have built an altar like to the sun in shape, and the priests praise God in the sun and in the stars, as it were His altars, and in the heavens, His temple as it were; and they pray to good angels, who are, so to speak, the intercessors living in the stars, their strong abodes. For God long since set signs of their beauty in heaven, and of His glory in the sun. They say there is but one heaven, and that the planets move and rise of themselves when they approach the sun or are in conjunction with it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey assert two principles of the physics of things below, namely, that the sun is the father, and the earth the mother; the air is an impure part of the heavens; all fire is derived from the sun. The sea is the sweat of earth, or the fluid of earth combusted, and fused within its bowels, but is the bond of union between air and earth, as the blood is of the spirit and flesh of animals. The world is a great animal, and we live within it as worms live within us. Therefore we do not belong to the system of stars, sun, and earth, but to God only; for in respect to them which seek only to amplify themselves, we are born and live by chance; but in respect to God, whose instruments we are, we are formed by prescience and design, and for a high end. Therefore we are bound to no father but God, and receive all things from Him. They hold as beyond question the immortality of souls, and that these associate with good angels after death, or with bad angels, according as they have likened themselves in this life to either. For all things seek their like. They differ little from us as to places of reward and punishment. They are in doubt whether there are other worlds beyond ours, and account it madness to say there is nothing. Nonentity is incompatible with the infinite entity of God. They lay down two principles of metaphysics, entity which is the highest God, and nothingness which is the defect of entity. Evil and sin come of the propensity to nothingness; the sin having its cause not efficient, but in deficiency. Deficiency is, they say, of power, wisdom, or will. Sin they place in the last of these three, because he who knows and has the power to do good is bound also to have the will, for will arises out of them.\"","brand":"Classics of Italian Literature Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074134491376,"sku":"2940014641388","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014641388_p0.jpg?v=1763612943","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014641388","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}