Utopia

Synopsis

With an introduction by mishtooni bose. More’s utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous ’description’ of the utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless. Drawing on the ideas of plato, st augustine and aristotle, utopia was to prove seminal in its turn, giving rise to the genres of utopian and dystopian prose fiction whose practitioners include sir francis bacon, h. G.