In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion & justice The book imagines a community in which laws personal relations & professional ambition are based on reason in contrast with the tradition-bound superstitions of Europe which were in More's eyes impediments to equality & peaceful coexistence One of the indicators of the profound cultural & political influence of More's masterpiece is today's common use of the word Utopia
- a term he invented This extraordinary treatise on the values of rationality & reason
- here presented in a sparkling new translation by Roger Clarke & accompanied by copious notes & additional texts
- questions what a philosopher can do to enact change in society & how idealized visions can inform political practice


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery But when a small group of previously unconnected people find themselves in possession of an original manuscript their lives suddenly & brutally implode Targeted swiftly & relentlessly by a murderous organisation known as The Network the terrified gang are left with only one option if they want to survive they have to run But just as they think their ordeal is over their fragile normality comes crashing down once again The Network far from being finished are setting their destructive plans into motion The gang now face a race against time to prevent global annihilation ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Utopia is a cult graphic novel rumoured to have predicted the worst disasters of the late twentieth century Dismissed as the fevered imaginings of a madman by most & idolised by a handful only one thing seems certain about Utopia come into contact with it & you won&t be safe for long When a small group of normal people (including an IT consultant student & child) find themselves in possession of the manuscript of Utopia they realise they are at the centre of a nightmarish conspiracy turned real Targeted by a shadowy organisation known only as The Network they are left with one option if they want to stay alive they have to run avoiding even being caught even on CCTV The Network is everywhere in government in business in charge A secret organisation constrained neither by borders nor common morality Nobody knows what their plan is just that they will stop at nothing to find the original manuscript of Utopia Utopia asks what if the conspiracy nuts are right? What if people are trying to control our lives doctor our food experiment upon us kill us? Fast terrifying funny & brutal it is a massive new dramaconspiracy thriller Director Marc Munden Alex Garcia & Wayne Yip Certificate 18 years & over Year 2012 Languages English Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players
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With an Introduction by Mishtooni Bose More's Utopia is a complex innovative & 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 & view gold as worthless Drawing on the ideas of Plato St Augustine & Aristotle Utopia was to prove seminal in its turn giving rise to the genres of utopian & dystopian prose fiction whose practitioners include Sir Francis Bacon HG Wells Aldous Huxley & George Orwell At once a critique of the social consequences of greed & a meditation on the personal cost of entering public service Utopia dramatises the difficulty of balancing the competing claims of idealism & pragmatism & continues to invite its readers to become participants in a compelling debate concerning the best state of a commonwealth ...

Thomas More's Utopia is a masterpiece of Renaissance political philosophy responsible for introducing the term 'utopia' & spawning an entire genre of 'utopian' & 'dystopian' literature This Penguin Classics edition is a major new translation from the Latin by Dominic Baker-Smith &

Includes:: an introduction & notes on the text' Even if you can't eradicate harmful ideas or remedy established evils that's no reason to turn your back on the body politic' In Utopia Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason & justice & human fulfilment is open to all As the traveller Raphael describes the island to More a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society & the custom-driven practices of Europe So how can the philosopher try to reform his society? In his fictional discussion More takes up a question first raised by Plato & which is still a challenge in the contemporary world In the history of political thought few works have been more influential than Utopia & few more misunderstood Dominic Baker-Smith's introduction examines the conflicting voices & perspectives of More's masterpiece & relates them to the European context of his time This new edition also

Includes:: a chronology notes appendices glossary & suggested further reading Thomas More (1478-1535) succeeded Cardinal Wolsey as Lord Chancellor of England but came into conflict with the king Henry VIII by refusing to acknowledge him as sole head of the church Charged with high treason More steadfastly refused to take an oath impugning the pope's authority or upholding the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon More was tried as a traitor at Westminster Hall & beheaded on Tower Hill He was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935 If you enjoyed Utopia you might like Plato's Republic also available in Penguin Classics



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- from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy
- was once considered a utopian fantasy New utopian ideas such as universal basic income & a fifteen-hour work week can become reality in our lifetime

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After the financial crash & the Great Recession the media rediscovered Karl Marx socialist theory & the very idea that capitalism can be questioned 180 pages Kunkel Benjamin ...

There are many debates about utopia
- What constitutes a utopia? Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential
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