#UTOPIA BY THOMAS MORE FREE#

Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535) published in 1516 in Latin. Regardless the future is very long and humans are an adaptable species. Thomas More knew his ideas were impractical but he wanted to give hope to the poor and oppressed, show the world a better way to live, the imbalance of society had to change or hunger, violence and war would follow, 500 years later the planet has not progressed, the foul not gone away.

#UTOPIA BY THOMAS MORE FREE#

Healthcare is free and old people are always provided for in this peaceful land of equality.if you are a citizen. Nonetheless a couple of days a month the inhabitants go to farms and help out, nobody is above getting their hands dirty. Organizing an unique republic where everyone works, and education continues all their lives in neat, clean, small cities looking admittedly like all the rest on the isle, when the population grows to an unmanageable number, new colonies are formed in foreign territories. This was just another barbarous place until a man named Utopus, conquered it during ancient times, he ordered the digging of a large trench and turning a huge peninsula into an island, letting the sea through, which isolated Utopia from the chaos of the mainland. Although they have slaves, mostly criminals and some soldiers captured in war, Utopians seldom fight for themselves hiring foreign mercenaries. The interested listeners are Sir Thomas More and his friend Belgian Peter Giles, both historical figures, a strange tale unfolds, can the two others believe him? The island republic of Utopia is apparently somewhere in the south Atlantic but never fully disclosed its exact location, where people work only six hours a day, choose their own leaders, despise gold and silver, wear the same type of clothes and no private property, however all their needs the state provides, maybe not living lavishly, yet comfortably, Raphael views all this in the capital, Aircastle. He recites the story of his life, has visited many nations in the world but none which effected him so much like his five- year stay on Utopia. Raphael Hythloday a Portuguese traveler when Portugal ruled the seas with a very unlikely name for a native of that country. Sir Thomas or Saint Thomas More, depending on your affiliation, Utopia, ( greatly influenced by Plato's The Republic) is a satire about tumultuous English politics published in 1516.

The Soviet Union honoured him for the Communistic attitude toward property rights expressed in Utopia.Īs the centuries roll by, more and more books are written about Utopian societies that should be established on Earth, but the few actually tried. Pope John Paul II in 2000 declared him the 'heavenly Patron of Statesmen and Politicians.' Since 1980, the Church of England has remembered More liturgically as a Reformation martyr. Pope Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason and beheaded. More opposed the King's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. He also wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary ideal island nation. More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular the theology of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. He was a councillor to Henry VIII and also served as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to. Sir Thomas More (1477-1535), venerated by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist.

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