Even if you cant eradicate harmful ideas or remedy established evils theres no reason to turn your back on the body politic. In Utopia" Thomas More gives us a travellers account of a newly-discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason & justice & human fulfillment 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-Smiths introduction examines the conflicting voices & perspectives of Mores masterpiece & relates them to the European context of his time. This new edition also
Includes:: a chronology notes appendices glossary & suggested further reading. It is translated & introduced by Dominic Baker-Smith."