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The New Republic: A Commentary on Book I of Moreâ (Tm)S Utopia Showing Its Relation to Platoâ (Tm)S Republic

The New Republic: A Commentary on Book I of Moreâ (Tm)S Utopia Showing Its Relation to Platoâ (Tm)S Republic

Starnes, Colin

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PhilosophyLiterary CriticismSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 0889209782
ISBN13: 9780889209787
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: May 2 1990
Pages: 136
Language: English

Colin Starnes radical interpretation of the long-recognized affinity of Thomas More's Utopia and Plato's Republic confirms the intrinsic links between the two works. Through commentary on More's own introduction to Book I, the author shows the Republic is everywhere present as the model of the best commonwealth, which More must first discredit as the root cause of the dreadful evils in the collapsing political situation of sixteenth-century Europe. Starnes demonstrates how More, once having shorn the Republic of what was applicable to a society that had for a thousand years accepted and been moved by the Christian revelation, then Christianized it to arrive at one of the earliest and most coherent accounts of the ideal modern state: the description of Utopia in Book II.

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