Thomas More - LUtopie (French Edition)

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Lecture. L'Utopie de Thomas More

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Either way, Utopia has become one of the most talked about works both in defense of Socialism and against it. Utopia was the book that invented a new genre of fiction. This spawned books and stories that have continued to dominate the industry of storytelling to this day. More wrote this story to make a point about socialism, whether in defense or as a criticism of. More was the first to create his idealistic world, and the framework he created has stuck around for hundreds of years Getty Utopia has a more playful tone than one might think.

He also says "When Raphael had finished his story, I was left thinking that quite a few of the laws and customs he had described as existing among the Utopians were really absurd. More is quite anxious to create his world, and pieces it together in great detail, taking pleasure in what makes world different from our own.

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One of the most troublesome questions about Utopia is Thomas More's reason for writing it. Most scholars see it as a comment on or criticism of 16th century Catholicism, for the evils of More's day are laid out in Book I and in many ways apparently solved in Book II. Yet, the puzzle is that some of the practices and institutions of the Utopians, such as the ease of divorce, euthanasia and both married priests and female priests , seem to be polar opposites of More's beliefs and the teachings of the Catholic Church of which he was a devout member.

Another often cited apparent contradiction is that of the religious tolerance of Utopia contrasted with his persecution of Protestants as Lord Chancellor. Similarly, the criticism of lawyers comes from a writer who, as Lord Chancellor , was arguably the most influential lawyer in England. It can be answered, however, that as a pagan society Utopians had the best ethics that could be reached through reason alone, or that More changed from his early life to his later when he was Lord Chancellor. One highly influential interpretation of Utopia is that of intellectual historian Quentin Skinner.

Crucially, Skinner sees Raphael Hythlodaeus as embodying the Platonic view that philosophers should not get involved in politics, while the character of More embodies the more pragmatic Ciceronian view. Thus the society Raphael proposes is the ideal More would want. But without communism, which he saw no possibility of occurring, it was wiser to take a more pragmatic view.

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Quentin Skinner's interpretation of Utopia is consistent with the speculation that Stephen Greenblatt made in The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. There, Greenblatt argued that More was under the Epicurean influence of Lucretius 's On the Nature of Things and the people that live in Utopia were an example of how pleasure has become their guiding principle of life.

Another complication comes from the Greek meaning of the names of people and places in the work. Apart from Utopia, meaning "Noplace," several other lands are mentioned: Achora meaning "Nolandia", Polyleritae meaning "Muchnonsense", Macarenses meaning "Happiland," and the river Anydrus meaning "Nowater". Raphael's last name, Hythlodaeus means "dispenser of nonsense" surely implying that the whole of the Utopian text is 'nonsense'.

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It is unclear whether More is simply being ironic, an in-joke for those who know Greek, seeing as the place he is talking about does not actually exist or whether there is actually a sense of distancing of Hythlodaeus' and the More's "Morus" views in the text from his own. The name Raphael, though, may have been chosen by More to remind his readers of the archangel Raphael who is mentioned in the Book of Tobit 3: In that book the angel guides Tobias and later cures his father of his blindness. While Hythlodaeus may suggest his words are not to be trusted, Raphael meaning in Hebrew "God has healed" suggests that Raphael may be opening the eyes of the reader to what is true.

The suggestion that More may have agreed with the views of Raphael is given weight by the way he dressed; with "his cloak Furthermore, more recent criticism has questioned the reliability of both Gile's annotations and the character of "More" in the text itself. Claims that the book only subverts Utopia and Hythlodaeus are possibly oversimplistic.

Utopia was begun while More was an envoy in the Low Countries in May More started by writing the introduction and the description of the society which would become the second half of the work and on his return to England he wrote the "dialogue of counsel", completing the work in In the same year, it was printed in Leuven under Erasmus's editorship and after revisions by More it was printed in Basel in November It was not until , sixteen years after More's execution, that it was first published in England as an English translation by Ralph Robinson.

Gilbert Burnet 's translation of is probably the most commonly cited version. The work seems to have been popular, if misunderstood: The eponymous title Utopia has since eclipsed More's original story and the term is now commonly used to describe an idyllic, imaginary society. Although he may not have directly founded the contemporary notion of what has since become known as Utopian and dystopian fiction , More certainly popularised the idea of imagined parallel realities, and some of the early works which owe a debt to Utopia must include The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella , Description of the Republic of Christianopolis by Johannes Valentinus Andreae , New Atlantis by Francis Bacon and Candide by Voltaire.

The politics of Utopia have been seen as influential to the ideas of Anabaptism and communism. The religious message in the work and its uncertain, possibly satiric, tone has also alienated some theorists from the work. During the opening scene in the film A Man for all Seasons , Utopia is referenced in a conversation. The alleged amorality of England's priests is compared to that of the more highly principled behaviour of the fictional priests in More's Utopia, when a character observes wryly that "every second person born in England is fathered by a priest.

Robert Appleton Company, Beginnings to , Part Three: The Renaissance, edited by Laura Getty, et al. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other written works, see Utopia disambiguation. Davis 28 July Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing — To get the free app, enter mobile phone number. See all free Kindle reading apps.

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