Description
| Product ID: | 9780241382684 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Pocket Hardbacks |
| Title: | Utopia |
| Authors: | Author: Thomas More, Dominic Baker-Smith, Dominic Baker-Smith |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Medieval Western philosophy, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-02-27 |
