AN IDEAL COMMONWEALTH: JUST A MYTH OR A POSSIBLE OPTION?

Tina Šabec

Abstract


This study discusses an ideal commonwealth as presented in Thomas More’s socio-political satire Utopia. The book has two parts, in Book two More gives a detailed description of the island of Utopia, a self-sufficient state that produces everything necessary for its inhabitants. Furthermore, the island, people, cities, customs, laws and other special characteristics are described. Finally, the study seeks to examine today’s view of More’s humanistic ideas. The question arises to what extent is the idea just a myth or is there realistic options to implement this in today’s world.

 

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ideal commonwealth, myth, option, Thomas More, Utopia

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More, Thomas. Utopia. ED. George M. Logan and Robert M. Adams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Nandanwad N, 2020. Communism, virtue and the ideal commonwealth in Thomas More’s Utopia. https://retrospectjournal.com/2020/12/13/communism-virtue-and-the-ideal-commonwealth-in-thomas-mores-utopia/. Accessed 1 May 2022.

Stanovčić, Vojislav. Utopističke teorije o društvu. Beograd: Delta -Press, 1974.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejlll.v6i1.336

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