Classical utopia. Mor T., Campanella T., Bacon F., de Bergerac S.

The very idea of ​​utopia belongs to Plato, who, in fact, created, in his “state”, the first model of ideal society in the history of European thought. However, the genre of literary utopia-that is, the works describing a society that are perfectly happy from the point of view of the author-is relatively young: the outstanding British humanist of the 16th century Thomas Mor is officially considered his creator father. He also gave his “wonderful island” (and at the same time to the whole genre) the name “utopia” - either from the Greek “good place”, or from the Greek “place that is not”. How did the ideal society imagine the great dreamers of the distant past? Thomas Mor admitted the existence of slaves in his ideal society... Tommaso Campanella presented to the court of shocked contemporaries the eccentric ideas of state education of children... Francis Bacon sang a society that put on the service of the achievement of science - from the "eternal engine" to the phone... and Sirano de Bergerac created a paradoxical and created paradoxical and created a paradoxical and created a paradoxical The funny world inhabited by fantastic creatures... the society that has to be read in this collection is unlikely to seem to the modern reader “utopian” in the usual sense of the word - but it will be all the more interesting to find out how the happiness of mankind has imagined many centuries ago.