IT 1751 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Tommaso Campanella, Theocracy
23 Jan 2019
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Seen as a scientific approach to the world, in the same aspect as astrology. The idea that there are either affinities or repulsions between all things. Astrology is tied into magic because since there is a relationship between all things the magician is the person who is able to recommend the appropriate actions for anything to do with human lives (sentiments or problems) Astrology is there to serve humans to make better decisions so they have future events that are favourable. Circular walls because with copernicus and galileo the motion of the planets was still circular, not elliptical which would come a little later. Reformation, counter-reformation, and the city of the sun. Changes of the reformation and counter-reformation inspired the way the fictional city campanella writes about is structured and governed. Book is based on a political theocracy, means the political authority of religious institutions.
