Thomas More's Utopia
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Sir Thomas More, also known as Saint Thomas More (because of sanctification by the Catholic Church) is probably best known for his confrontation with King Henry VIII, for which he lost his life. He was a statesman as well as a political and social philosopher. His most famous work is his Utopia, a book in which he created his version of a perfect society and gave his name to such conceptions ever after as "utopias." The word is of Greek origin, a play on the Greek word eutopos, meaning good place. In the book, More describes a pagan and communist city-state in which the institutions and policies are governed entirely by reason. The order and dignity of the state in this book contrasted sharply with the reality of statecraft in Christian Europe at the time, a region divided by self-interest and greed for power and riches. In this book, More included discussions of a large number of topics covering the institutions of society, including penology, state-controlled education, religious pluralism, divorce, euthanasia, and women's rights. The Black Death of the Middle Ages has long held a mythic place in history as a story of a terrible pestilence visited upon Europe, a pestilence that perhaps could return one day. Yet, in the modern age we have been able to control most infectious diseases, eliminating the unsanitary conditions that produce them in the industrialized nations and attacking them with wonder drugs in areas still afflicted with such problems. The organism t
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