8/12/2023 0 Comments Thomas more 1516Must try to make as little wrong as possible. Social reform is a pleasant ideal, but that conservatism is moreĪppropriate to these precarious days: "what you can't put right you Out, or merely treated as a figure of fun" (p. Merely tolerating one, is coincidental at best: "I'd be promptly thrown Raphael notes that the likelihood of a king acting as a philosopher, or Their strongly (and wrongly) held assumptions. That no king or court would tolerate a counselor who might challenge More asks if he might serve as counselor to some king, Raphael responds Raphael remains an outsider to civilization - despite his wisdom. "you create thieves, and then punish them for stealing" (p. Moreover, these ills produce a subjugated people: Ornamentation - all of these social ills lead to a sick society,Īccording to Raphael. Wasteful standing army, the practice of gambling and gratuitous The seizure of land by oligarchs, the maintenance of a In English society are executed when, instead, they should be pitiedĪnd helped. Raphael illustrates this rebuke by noting that thieves Even Tudor England offers little in the form Various communities around the globe - and that he finds most of them īefore long, it becomes clear that Raphael offers shrewd analysis of Populations but examples of wise social planning are not so easy toįind" (p. Who prey on human beings, snatch away their food, or devour whole After all, "There is never any shortage of horrible creatures Even monsters are hardly worthy ofĬoncern. Raphael is a traveler who has seen much of the world yet The booksīegin a conversation between Thomas More and Raphael (Hebrew for 'God Plato's Republic, a largely abstract dialogue about justice, Utopiaįocuses on politics and social organization in stark detail. New York, NY: Dover Thrift Edition.Īttempts to offer a practical response to the crises of the fifteenthĪnd sixteenth centuries by carefully defining an ideal republic. COMM 149F - Summary of Thomas More's Utopia
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