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Utopia

Utopia

More, Thomas
Bose, Mishtooni
Griffith, Tom

Paperback

Series: Classics of World Literature

PhilosophySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1853264741
ISBN13: 9781853264740
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Published: Mar 5 1997
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.38 Width: 4.99 Depth: 7.79
Language: English

With an Introduction by Mishtooni Bose.

More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless. Drawing on the ideas of Plato, St Augustine and Aristotle, Utopia was to prove seminal in its turn, giving rise to the genres of utopian and dystopian prose fiction whose practitioners include Sir Francis Bacon, H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. At once a critique of the social consequences of greed and a meditation on the personal cost of entering public service, Utopia dramatises the difficulty of balancing the competing claims of idealism and pragmatism, and continues to invite its readers to become participants in a compelling debate concerning the best state of a commonwealth.

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