Author: More, Saint Thomas, Baker-Smith, Dominic
Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600
Published on 27 February 2020 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Pocket Hardbacks' series.
Hardback | 256 pages
175 x 110 x 23 | 250g
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.