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'To find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, that is an exceeding rare, and hard thing.' Thomas More's Utopia presents an account of an idealised fictional society that has fascinated readers since its first publication in Latin in 1516. It is a scathing...
What we can learn from a Renaissance nowhere In 1516, a book was published in Latin with the enigmatic Greek-derived word as its title. Utopia—which could mean either “good-place” or “no-place”—gives a traveler’s account of a newly discovered island somewhere in...
Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478-1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily...
Designedly fantastic in suggestion of details, "Utopia" is the work of a scholar who had read Plato's "Republic," and had his fancy quickened after reading Plutarch's account of Spartan life under Lycurgus. Beneath the veil of an ideal communism, into which there has...
This is a fully revised edition of one of the most successful volumes in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series. Incorporating extensive updates to the editorial apparatus, including the introduction, suggestions for further reading, and...
"Utopia" ("Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia") is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More (1478–1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily...
'It remains astonishingly radical ... one of Utopia's most striking aspects is its contemporaniety' Terry EagletonIn 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...
In Utopia, More paints a vision of the customs and practices of a distant island, but Utopia means 'no place' and his narrator's name, Hythlodaeus, translates as 'dispenser of nonsense'. This fantastical tale masks what is a serious and subversive analysis of the...
Thomas More: Utopia/ Francis Bacon: New Atlantis/Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines With the publication of Utopia (1516),Thomas More introduced into the English language not only a new word, but a new way of thinking about the gulf between what ought to be and what...
Sir Thomas More, son ofSir John More, a justice of the King's Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in the city of London. After his earlier education at St. Anthony's School, in Threadneedle Street, he was placed, as a boy, in the household of Cardinal John Morton,...
Chancelier du roi Henri VIII, Thomas More se désole des mœurs de son temps : corruption, abus, racket sont monnaie courante dans une société féodale sur le déclin. Il rêve d’un autre monde, d’une république exemplaire, où la propriété individuelle et l’argent seraient...
Influenciado por escritores antigos como Platão, Thomas More não deixa de reflectir as preocupações assentes num profundo humanismo, numa fé optimista em relação à natureza humana. Ao publicar a "Utopia", em 1516, abriu as portas do sonho à cultura, na primeira...
« Car si, d'un côté, je ne puis consentir à tout ce qui a été dit par cet homme, du reste fort savant sans contredit et très habile en affaires humaines, d'un autre côté, je confesse aisément qu'il y a chez les Utopiens une foule de choses que je souhaite voir...
Citation :« - Eh bien, cher Raphaël, dis-je, décrivez-nous cette île, nous vous en prions instamment. Donnez-nous un tableau complet des cultures, des fleuves, des villes, des hommes, des mœurs, des institutions et des lois, enfin de tout ce qu’à votre avis nous...
Neste clássico que tem atraído a atenção de estudiosos e intrigado leitores desde a sua publicação no século XVI, Thomas More idealiza uma ilha onde não existe a propriedade privada nem o dinheiro, e onde o Estado se preocupa com a felicidade do povo e a organização da...
Dans le livre L'Utopie, Thomas More est toujours à la recherche de l'idéal en défendant l'ouverture d'esprit, l'aptitude à l'expérimentation et la discussion pour améliorer la société. Il rêve de créer un État libéral qui permet de satisfaire les besoins de chacun et de...
RÉSUMÉ : "L'Utopie" de Thomas More est une oeuvre fondatrice de la littérature politique, publiée en 1516, qui propose une réflexion profonde sur la société idéale. Le livre se présente sous la forme d'un dialogue entre More et un voyageur fictif, Raphaël Hythloday, qui...
« Utopia » (le titre complet en latin est« De optimo rei publicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia, ou par extense, Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus de optimo rei publicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia ») est un ouvrage de Thomas More paru en...
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