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.
| ISBN: | 9780241382684 |
| Publication date: | 27th February 2020 |
| Author: | Thomas More, Dominic Baker-Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Pocket Hardbacks |
| Genres: |
Social and political philosophy Medieval Western philosophy Political science and theory |