Is More's Utopia a Product of Its Time?

Sir Thomas Moore first came up with utopia in 1516 and served as British ambassador to join the Flemish party expedition. In England, his profession is a law, he holds the position of a sheriff, and his knowledge in this field has a big impact on utopian society. Utopia is a record of imaginary gatherings between Moore and Rafael High Slaudaus and they lived on Utopia's social island for five years. Writing utopia for nearly 500 years is still controversial; some political and religious followers claim that their ideals and beliefs are concrete.

The utopia of Thomas Moore is also a product of his era and the writings of the Republic of Plato. Certainly before writing his utopia, more people would read Plato and consider the Republic. Instead of accepting Republic's regulations on the appropriate amount of state, he woven into the tendency of ideas and avoided it. And I picked only those things that were edible at his place and time. Whether it is his expansion of the Plato education system or his development of strict sexual ethics, that is the details of a new blueprint for an ideal country. More people may feel that his utopia is "no place", but in reality, this is only a way of human thought in the Republic of Plato.

The influence of Plato and the Republic is immeasurable. Cicero and Augustine regard Plato as a model philosopher, but Thomas Moore's Utopia is an obvious tribute to the Republic. In philosophy and novel, it can be said that all the utopia and all the distant peers were written somewhere in the background of the Republic of Plato. Trying to explain all the work someone might explain as a dialogue with the republic - from the prince of Machiavelli to the second discourse of Hobbes' Leviathan to Rub, until Nietzsche's good and evil transcendence I understand immediately that accountants are gathering in the history of political philosophy