Political PhilosophyBook · 1516
Utopia
Thomas More
A traveller describes an island with no private property, six-hour working days, gold used for chamber pots, and also slaves and euthanasia. More was Lord Chancellor and later executed by Henry VIII, and he never said outright whether he approved of the place he invented.
Why you should read this
More coined the word 'utopia' itself for this satirical account of an imaginary ideal society, using the frame of a traveler's report to needle contemporary English politics, religion and property law without committing to any position as clearly his own. Short enough for a single sitting, though its irony is easy to flatten into a straightforward blueprint.
- Field
- Political Philosophy
- Form
- Non-fiction
- Published
- 1516
- Themes
- Political Philosophy
