Utopia
In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all. As the traveller, Raphael, describes the island to More, a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society and the custom-driven practices of Europe. So how can the philosopher try to reform his society? In his fictional discussion, More takes up a question first raised by Plato and which is still a challenge in the contemporary world. In the history of political thought few works have been more influential than Utopia, and few more misunderstood.
- Author
- Thomas More
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 256
- Series
- Penguin Pocket Hardbacks
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-38268-4
- EAN
- 9780241382684
- Release date
- 2020
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- Meditations
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Utopia with Erasmus's The Sileni of Alcibiades
- English Sixteenth Century Verse
- The Last Letters of Thomas More
- The Sadness of Christ and Final Prayers and Benedictions
- A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation