Oceana

Japanese: 《オシアナ》 - おしあな
Oceana

...The acquisition of knowledge and the improvement of human knowledge seem to be essential conditions for utopia. Examples include J. Harrington's The Republic of Oceana (1656), Cyrano de Bergerac's Another World, or the Empire of the Moon (1657), and G. de Fogny's The Unknown Country of the South (1676). All of these works are extremely realistic in content, despite the unusual conception. In contrast, the second type has a strong Christian coloration.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Oceana" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…知識の獲得,人知の向上はユートピアの必須条件とされているかのようだ。J.ハリントン《オシアナ共和国》(1656),シラノ・ド・ベルジュラック《別世界または月世界諸国諸帝国》(1657),G.deフォアニ《南の未知の国》(1676)などの例をあげられるが,いずれも構想の奇抜さにもかかわらず,内容的にはひじょうに現実的である。 これにたいして第2の形式は,キリスト教的色彩の強いものである。…

※「《オシアナ》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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