L' Utopia o la migliore forma di repubblica

As the centuries roll by, more and more books are written about Utopian societies that should be established on Earth, but the few actually tried... fail. Sir Thomas or Saint Thomas More, depending on your affiliation, Utopia , ( greatly influenced by Plato's The Republic) is a satire about tumultuo Leggi tutto

The term “utopia” is Thomas More’s most enduring invention. Its meaning is not completely clear, however: is utopia a good place (εὖ-τόπος) or a no place or nowhere (οὐ-τόπος)? Probably both: in a sense, a utopia is a place “too good to be true”. Socrates described the first utopia in Plato’s Republ Leggi tutto

توماس مور كما هو معروف هو أول من صاغ هذه الكلمةيوتوبيا وهي تعني في لغتها الأصلية :ليس في مكانوهكذا راح يتصور مور في كتابه هذا المجتمع مثالي كما هكذا بدأت بذور فلسفة المدينة الفاضلةوربما الاشتراكية أيضا بشكل طفيف::::::::::::::إن نموذج مور لهو نموذج خيالي بحت حتى في اختياره للمكانفهو ليس موجود على الخ Leggi tutto

Thomas More's life blah blah feudalism, in which virtually all power resided with enormous white ducks while the peasants had to wear roller skates even in bed. The late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries blah blah Renaissance, a flowering of platform heel shoes and massive shagging blah blah I Leggi tutto

Review FYI - Read years ago, wrote review in college... Thomas More was the first to coin the word “utopia.” More was the son of a court judge, and a page to Archbishop Morton throughout his youth in London. He was profoundly affected not only by these two great gentlemen, but also by the

The term 'utopia' in the way we use it today, to refer to an ideal but unattainable state, comes from this book, which More wrote in 1516. The form is political critique disguised as fantasy disguised as travelogue. More casts himself as the recorder of Raphael Hythloday's travels to the island of U Leggi tutto