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Petrić's Socio-Philosophical Thought Between Realism and Utopianism

Frane Petrić's text about the 'happy city'differs radically from the utopian projects of his time, since his fundamental intention is to build a 'happy city', or 'city state', within the not only well-preserved but actually strengthened existing (feudal) social system. Inspired primarily by Aristotle's social-philosophical ideas and views, Petrić added to them - as the key points of the social and state system - a characteristic Renaissance Machiavellian resoluteness in the form of pragmatic imoralism. Since Petrić's social and political project was designed to serve more as a pragmatical manual for the optimalization and strengthening of the existing order than as an outline planof an imagined new and perfect community, we can conclude that the basic intention and message of his Happy City was much closer to renaissance Machiavellian realism than to Renaissance utopianism.

Utopianism; social philosophy; Renaissance; Platonism; Aristotelianism; Machiavellian realism

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