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'Even if you can't eradicate harmful ideas or remedy established evils, there's no reason to turn your back on the body politic'. 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 fulfillment 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. Dominic Baker-Smith's introduction examines the conflicting voices and perspectives of More's masterpiece and relates them to the European context of his time. This new edition also includes a chronology, notes, appendices, glossary and suggested further reading. It is translated and introduced by Dominic Baker-Smith.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Utopia
• Author: Thomas More
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780141442327
• ISBN: 0141442328
• ID: 01198393
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 144 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 130 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. August 2012

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