Utopia
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Publishing year : January 2012
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780141442327
- Imprint : Penguin
- Age Group : Adult
- Language : English
- Number of Pages : 192 Pages
In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a so ...
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 describes the island, a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society and the practices of Europe. How can the philosopher reform his society? In his 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.
Translated and introduced by Dominic Baker-Smith