Utopia - Thomas More
by rachel Core
1. Working life
2. Agriculture most important job every person taught for two years on how to farm
3. Utopia means nowhere place can never exist
4. Overview
5. Christian Sythesis
6. Humor and Parody
7. Property divided & Affect on society
8. Slavery
9. Goverment
10. Social critique of great britain
11. Finding happiness
12. Thomas More's Utopia is a christian humanist view of an ideal society
13. More does not simply offer a theoretical view, but provides specifics for how to create this world
14. Utopia offers a christianized form of Plato's Republic
15. Gambling, hunting, makeup and astrology are all discouraged in Utopia
16. The christian aspect of the synthesis is Christ's gospel of caring for the poor, the oppressed and the downtrodden
17. The platonic, republican tradition is the greek aspect of the synthesis
18. More wrote Utopia with a comedic tone, allowing him to speak his truth while telling a deeper story
19. The local political system is called a sty which is more calling all the people in great britain pigs
20. The island contains 54 towns each having 6000 households
21. Every household has between 10 -16 adults
22. No private ownership
23. no locks on doors
24. Every ten years you have to move
25. Goverment in charge of houseing
26. Women and men did the same work
27. every citizen must learn at least one of the other essential trades: weaving (mainly done by the women), carpentry, metalsmithing and masonry.
28. Two slaves in every household
29. criminals are weighed down with chains made out of gold
30. Consists of people from other countries or criminals from the utopia
31. Slaves periodically released for good behavior
32. Provided free hospitals
33. Euthanasia permissable
34. premarital sex punished by a lifetime of enforced celibacy and adultery being punished by enslavement
35. Meals are taken in community dining halls and the job of feeding the population is given to a different household in turn.
36. there are no lawyers and the law is made deliberately simple, as all should understand it and not leave people in any doubt of what is right and wrong.
37. Utopia is a communist society
38. Great britain is a monarchy
39. A monarchy on paper may seem more corrupt on paper as appose to a perfect world where everyone is equal but that is unrealistic
40. Don't have to worry about housing or food or main stability factors, less stress compared to our society
41. Freedom of religion
42. Allowed to be divorced
