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Before Utopia: The Making of Thomas More's Mind

Before Utopia: The Making of Thomas More's Mind

Dealy, Ross

Hardcover

Literary CriticismReligion General

ISBN10: 1487506597
ISBN13: 9781487506599
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Mar 3 2020
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Before Utopia demonstrates that Thomas More's Utopia (1516) is not, as is widely accepted, a rhetorical play of spirit but is instead built from a particular philosophy. That philosophy is not Platonism, but classical Stoicism.

Deeply disturbed in his youth by the conviction that he needed to decide between a worldly and a monastic path, Thomas More was transformed in 1504 by Erasmus' De taedio Iesu and Enchiridion. As a consequence, he married in 1505 and wholeheartedly committed himself to worldly affairs. His Lucian (1506), written after working directly with Erasmus, adopts the Stoic mindset; Erasmus' Praise of Folly (1511) shows from beginning to end the workings of More's life-changing Stoic outlook. More's Utopia then goes on to systematically illustrate the Stoic unitary two-dimensional frame of thought within an imaginary New World setting.

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