Utopia by Thomas More
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.-
Meditations
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Beyond Good and Evil
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The Communist Manifesto
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Letters from a Stoic
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The Prince
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The Art of War
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A Room of One's Own
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Civilization and Its Discontents
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Fear and Trembling
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
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Confessions
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The Nature of Things
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Essays and Aphorisms
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Discourses and Selected Writings
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780241382684 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241382688 |
| Title | Utopia |
| Author | Thomas More |
| Series | Penguin Pocket Hardbacks |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2020-02-27 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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