Colin Starnes radical interpretation of the long-recognized affinity of Thomas More’s Utopia and Plato’s Republic confirms the intrinsic links between the two works. Through commentary on More’s own introduction to Book I, the author shows the Republic is everywhere present as the model of the “best commonwealth,” which More must first discredit as the root cause of the dreadful evils in the collapsing political situation of sixteenth-century Europe. Starnes demonstrates how More, once having shorn the Republic of what was applicable to a society that had for a thousand years accepted and been moved by the Christian revelation, then “Christianized” it to arrive at one of the earliest and most coherent accounts of the ideal modern state: the description of Utopia in Book II.
Knowing this radically new view of a long-recognized position may be questioned, the author has included a criticism and appreciation of the other major lines of interpretation concerning More’s Utopia.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 321/.07
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780889205956 0889209782
- LCCN
- HX810.5.Z6
- LCCN Item number
- S73 1990eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xiii, 122 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)rjv00101409 (OCoLC)144145167 (CaOOCEL)402364
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Contents 4
- Author's Note 6
- Preface 8
- Notes 12
- Introduction 16
- Notes 26
- Commentary on Book I of More's Utopia 34
- I. More's Criticism of the Platonic Separation of the Classes 45
- II. More's Criticism of the Platonic Doctrine of the Philosopher/King 71
- Notes 89
- Conclusion 106
- Notes 121
- Appendix 124
- Bibliography 128
- Index 134
- A 134
- B 134
- C 134
- D 135
- E 135
- F 135
- G 135
- H 135
- I 135
- J 135
- K 136
- L 136
- M 136
- N 136
- O 136
- P 136
- Q 136
- R 136
- S 137
- T 137
- U 137
- V 137
- W 137
- X 137
