Utopia

Name: Utopia
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ISBN: 9780141442327

ISBN-10: 0141442328

ISBN-13: 9780141442327

Edition: 2012

Authors: Thomas More, Dominic Baker-Smith

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'Even if you can't eradicate harmful ideas or remedy established evils, that's no reason to turn your back on the body politic'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…

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List price: $7.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Publication date: 8/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Chronology


Introduction


Further Reading


A Note on the Text


Utopia


Map of Utopia


The Utopian Alphabet and a Quatrain in the Utopian Language


A Literal Translation of the Utopian Quatrain


Anemolius' Stanza on the Island of Utopia


Thomas More's First Letter to Peter Giles


Peter Giles's Letter to Jerome Busleyden


Thomas More's Second Letter to Peter Giles









'Between friends all is common'



An Account of the Taï¿½no People


Glossary of Names


Notes


Acknowledgements