Utopia- Thomas More
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Andrea Ticas
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The people found happiness through nonsense
More wrote Utopia with a comedic tone, allowing him to speak his truth while telling a deeper story.
Overview
Thomas More's Utopia is a Christian-humanist view of an ideal society.
More does not simply offer a theoretical view, but provides specifics for how to create this world.
Utopia offers a Christianized form of Plato's Republic.
Christian Synthesis
The Christian aspect of the synthesis is Christ's gospel of caring for the poor, the oppressed and the downtrodden.
The Platonic, Republican tradition is the Greek aspect of the synthesis.
Humor and Parody
Utopia means nowhere
The local political system is called a sty
Property
Communal ownership of land, and private property does not exist.
Government assigns land to you.
People have to rotate the land every ten years.
There are no locks on houses
Working Life
You have to learn farming before you learn anything else for at least 2 years.
Women and men do equal amounts of work and the same work.
people must lone of the other essential trades: weaving (mainly done by the women), carpentry, metalsmithing and masonry.
Everyone who can work has to work.
Only have to work 6 hours a day.
People who are educated or scholars can become are allowed to become officials.
Slavery
Every house has at least 2 slaves.
They are either from other countries or are criminals of the state
They are weighed down with gold chains
Government
philosophers are the ones that are supposed to rule because they are enlightened and will help with the flawed government.
HAHAHA Great Brittin
???? I NEED HELP!!!!
Happiness
Being ignorant brought them happiness
so did the fact that they were all equal and had gold
