THE CITY OF THE SUN AND THE FOUNDATIONS FOR SOCIAL PERFORMANCE

• Main Author: Martian IOVAN
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitatea de Vest Vasile Goldis din Arad 2011-11-01
• Series: Societate şi Politică
• Subjects: Tommasso Campanella; The City of the Sun; social performance; communal interest; administration of justice
• Online Access: http://www.uvvg.ro/socpol/images/stories/2011-2/4.%20martian%20iovan.pdf

This paper proposes a new contextual interpretation ofThe City of the Sun as a pattern for social performance in a systematic, wellorganized society. I will explore the foundations of some interestingconcepts and aspects developed by Campanella in The City of the Sun, such asan economic system based on social distribution, the emphasis ontechnology as a strong basis for social development, and the administrativesystem of justice. I will argue that Campanella’s perfect society is, in fact, aresponse to his attempt to find a possibility of constraining social andinstitutional order so that the human beings can live together in perfectharmony.