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For perspective, we turned to the 16th-century philosopher Sir Thomas More, who coined the term and wrote the book “Utopia.” Could you compose a tweet summing up utopia?
In his 1516 book Utopia, Sir Thomas More described the approach to the mythic island of Utopia as being "occasioned by rocks on the one hand, and shallows on the other… The channel is known only ...
Yet Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, written in 1516, hasn’t been all that widely available. Sure, you can find it on the internet if you look hard enough, but this marks the first time that you can ...
Utopia is in the eye of the beholder. For Sir Thomas More, who coined the word for his 1516 book of the same name, it meant a fictional island society carved out in a satirical image of perfection ...
500 years after Sir Thomas More's Utopia, what have we learned? By Desmond Manderson. March 21, 2017 — 3.26pm. Save. ... On the 500th anniversary of More's little book, ...
This is the fundamental question that More addresses in the second book of Utopia. It is only a theoretical question, but one that More felt needed to be raised in a society that had grown lax in ...
What better way is there to end 2016 than by celebrating the 500th anniversary of a book like Thomas More’s Utopia?First published in the early winter of 1516, Utopia eventually became one of ...
One detail from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia stuck with me after reading it long ago, and it’s come to mind with some regularity over the past few months: on More’s imaginary island, anyone who aspired to ...
Sir Thomas More, the Lord Chancellor of England who resigned in 1532, gave to the English language the word ‘utopia’ to describe any imagined place or state of things in which everything is ...
In 1516, British author and statesman Sir Thomas More published the book Utopia. The title was a play on the Greek words for the “good place” (eu-topos) and the “no place” (ou-topos).