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Utopia

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By (author): Saint Thomas More Thomas More

Translated by: Dominic Baker-Smith

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 thought few works have been more influential than Utopia, and few more misunderstood. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 248g
  • Dimensions: 111 x 175mm
  • Publication Date: 27 Feb 2020
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780241382684

About Saint Thomas MoreThomas More

Thomas More Thomas More was born a Londoner in 1477 or 1478. He served as a page then studied at Oxford was called to the bar and subsequently had a highly successful career in the City. Sent on an embassy to Flanders in 1515 he began Utopia there and completed it back in London. From 1528 he actively resisted innovation in religious matters and clashed with Henry VIII over his break with the Church. In July 1535 after he refused to accept royal supremacy over the church he was tried as a traitor at Westminster Hall and beheaded on Tower Hill. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935.Dominic Baker-Smith OBE was a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College Cambridge Professor of English at University College Cardiff and Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam. His books included More's 'Utopia' (2000) and he edited three volumes in the University of Toronto Press' Collected Works of Erasmus.

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