Utopia with Erasmus's The Sileni of Alcibiades

Sixteenth-century classic by brilliant humanist, churchman and scholar envisioned a patriarchal island kingdom that practiced religious tolerance, in which everybody worked, all goods were community-owned, and violence, bloodshed and vice were nonexistent. Forerunner of many later attempts at establishing "Utopias" both in theory and in practice.

• Author
• Thomas More, David Wootton

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 216

• Publisher
• Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780872203761

• Genres
• philosophy, classics, history, literature

• Release date
• 1999