Utopia

Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publish date: 27 February 2020
Pages: 256
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy, History & Surveys, Medieval, Political, Political Science, Political Ideologies, Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, History & Theory, Utopias

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.