@article{article_995021, title={MENTAL ROOTS OF UTOPIAS AS REPRESENTATIONS OF SOCIAL FANTASY UTOPIAS IN ANCIENT TIMES}, journal={Ekonomi ve Yönetim Araştırmaları Dergisi}, volume={9}, pages={30–45}, year={2020}, url={https://izlik.org/JA88DZ63AW}, author={Özcan, Didem and Çımat, Ali}, keywords={ütopya, antik çağ ütopyaları, ütopyan bakış açısı, ütopyaların tarihi}, abstract={The search and the wish for an ideal, with a historical and societal insight, have always occurred in various forms since the oldest times of human history. To figure out the motivation for utopias as representations of societal fantasy, the roots of individual wishes and societal needs must be analysed. Even though, a state of complete happiness for the individual and the society is impossible; utopias, setting an allegory to define the defects of the era and the society in a unique way and manner, offers a vision to transform the social setting. With a similar insight, pioneering stirrings are encountered from the first modern utopia works backwards, to change the social setting. When the relation of utopias to the past and future is discovered, utopias make sense. Ancient Age works though cannot be defined as utopias, can be counted as sources of thought for utopias. These works are the first examples of thoughts that have influenced utopias handling the themes of social gender issues, education, economic structure, urbanisation and give clues as to the social life. The first experiences of morality, religion, battles, justice, types of government, and intercommunal affairs of the Ancient Age and the their effects of mental crises and revolutions and the imaginary collection of these reflected in utopias have made it possible for efficient works to come out.}, number={2}