Utopia

Name: Utopia
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Sir Thomas More
ISBN: 9781452671215

Author: Sir Thomas More

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 4 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/09/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, History & Surveys

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Sir Thomas More's Utopia has spurred debate, reflection, and critical thinking since its original publication in the sixteenth century. More's fictional island of Utopia provides an exploration of issues that shook him and his contemporaries and that continue to be problematic in the modern day. The details of More's utopian society, such as the permissibility of euthanasia and comments on chastity in the priesthood, combine with proposals of coexisting varied religions to put forth a work that incorporates the totality of More's religious, sociological, and philosophical talents.

This version of Utopia is the translation by Bishop Gilbert Burnet.

About Sir Thomas More

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important counselor to Henry VIII of England, and for three years toward the end of his life he was Lord Chancellor. He is also recognized as a saint within the Catholic Church and in the Anglican Communion. More was an opponent of the Protestant Reformation and of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. Best known for his masterpiece Utopia, More is also the author of The History of King Richard III, A Dialogue Concerning Heresies, and Treatise on the Blessed Body.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Henry

As the centuries roll by, more and more books are written about Utopian societies that should be established on Earth, but the few actually tried... fail. Sir Thomas or Saint Thomas More, depending on your affiliation, Utopia , ( greatly influenced by Plato's The Republic) is a satire about tumultuo......more

Goodreads review by Leonard

The term “utopia” is Thomas More’s most enduring invention. Its meaning is not completely clear, however: is utopia a good place (εὖ-τόπος) or a no place or nowhere (οὐ-τόπος)? Probably both: in a sense, a utopia is a place “too good to be true”. Socrates described the first utopia in Plato’s Republ......more

Goodreads review by هدى

توماس مور كما هو معروف هو أول من صاغ هذه الكلمة يوتوبيا وهي تعني في لغتها الأصلية :ليس في مكان وهكذا راح يتصور مور في كتابه هذا المجتمع مثالي كما هكذا بدأت بذور فلسفة المدينة الفاضلة وربما الاشتراكية أيضا بشكل طفيف :::::::::::::: إن نموذج مور لهو نموذج خيالي بحت حتى في اختياره للمكان فهو ليس موجود على الخ......more