Grasp Utopia Generated By Thomas More Categorized In Pamphlet
longe de ser perfeita esta Utopia imaginada por Thomas More,
O autor surge, na obra, como o cidadão de Londres que regista o testemunho de Rafael Hitlodeu, navegador português que descobriu a Ilha de Utopia.
Obviamente fruto da imaginação de More, Utopia, que significa "nenhures", é apresentada como a sociedade ideal, o modelo a que todo o mundo deveria aspirar.
Poderia sêlo em, quando o
livro é originalmente publicado, O governo da ilha, almejando sempre o Bem Comum, é assaz diverso do habitual à época e do que era defendido por contemporâneos de More.
Quanto aos utopianos, são pessoas pacíficas e instruídas, para quem a felicidade nasce "do exercício da virtude e da consciência de uma boa vida".
Para os nossos padrões, porém, a Ilha tem muitos e incontornáveis defeitos, como a misoginia e a escravatura, que o autor não questiona.
De leitura simples muito mais do que eu imaginava , Utopia é um clássico obrigatório que ajuda a perceber o pensamento e a realidade do século XVI em alguns pontos, acreditem, bem menos distante do que seria desejável.
Not a book that I can recommend for enjoyment, masterful prose or good storytelling, Rather I think the value in reading is to see the backwardness of a Utopia envisioned by Thomas More, an enlightened man for the times.
Of course it is easy to be judgmental about his writings when looking in the rearview mirror at a book nearlyyears old.
More, a high level adviser to King Henry VIII, envisions an island nation, Utopia where they dont engage in wars and where there is a great deal of discussion on commerce, judges, absence of lawyers, the importance of slaves and how in tough cases a fair prince is the final arbiter.
Catholicism is the way forward, Women have no rights. And so on.
Mores writing is unimaginative by modern standards, most middle schoolers today could come up with better utopias if given an assignment.
To be fair, More applied a more pragmatic lens to his Utopia, But when compared with Shakespeares writings that came out half a century later there isnt much imagination here,
stars. A quick read that has some genuine historical value and came from someone who is acknowledged as a supreme intellect for his time.
Published inand originally written in Latin, Utopia is a framed narrative depicting a life on a fictional island, It is often described as sociological and political satire, Utopia is one of those books that one reads for educational purposes, I did find it enjoyable, but it is definitely more an educational read, I mean I cannot say that Utopia is a particularly entertaining book to read, It is interesting, but let's face it, not really a pageturner this one, right Not surprisingly, I found Utopia to be interesting primarily from a historical point of view.
In addition, I find the act of writing Utopian literature as something that is worth thinking about, Questions that come to my mind, Why do human being have this desire for creating Utopia Why have all our efforts to create it failed miserably So, yes it is definitely an interesting book, the kind that can make one think.
It is more playful in tone that in might seem at first, It might be boring to some, but if you're interested in literature, classics or this particular historical period, you might find it interesting.
I actually found Thomas More ideas to be somewhat revolutionary for his time and original, Some of his thinking was unexpected and hence alluring, Although, I must say that many of More's suggestions for improving society are unrealistic and well just plain silly, All in all, I liked Utopia and I don't regret reading it, In some ways I found it to be fascinating, but then again I was well still I'm interested in how a mind of Renaissance or humanistic thinker worked, so if you're not you might not enjoy this as much.
On the other hand, If you're interested in Renaissance or Utopian literature, this could be a great educational read for you, In my opinion, one of the best ways to get a real feel of a certain historical period, you should read as many literal works from that time, even if they're not great literature or super interesting.
To conclude, this is a great educational read, Not a great work of classical literature, but a fascinating book nevertheless, This book was published inand it's divided into two parts, The first one made my eyes feel exhausted, so I can sum up all that just by saying that More found his friend Peter and this one introduced him to a fella named Raphael, a man who visited several countries to satisfy his desire to see the world.
He shared some opinions of the political scenario of his time a bit familiar whether you are talking about yesterday's kingdoms or today's democratic governments, some things never change and talked about some general aspects of this awesome island called Utopia.
The other two guys couldn't believe that such a land could subsist, since it was a place where, for instance, private property didn't exist.
A million words and a couple of eyelashes later, Raphael started to talk specifically about Utopia: all things relating to their soil, their rivers, their towns, their people, their manners, constitution, laws.
. .
And here I stop, Laws. This society has few laws, Why
They very much condemn other nations whose laws, together with the commentaries on them, swell up to so many volumes for they think it an unreasonable thing to oblige men to obey a body of laws that are both of such a bulk and so dark as not to be read and understood by every one of the subjects.
That last line seems to have been quite a source of ideas to the great Kafka, And I agree: laws should be simpler, everybody should be able to understand them and that bureaucracy that sucks life out of people should be eradicated, etc.
, etc. And so did the Utopians: few laws and, of course, no lawyers,
they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters and to wrest the laws and therefore they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause, and trust it to the judge.
. . By this means they both cut off many delays,
Ignore this paragraph, I need to vent and I am going to hide it for your own good,
Breathe.
Excellent.
Anyway, this is a book about an ideal land, a pagan place, Saint Thomas' perfect society was one that worshiped the sun or the moon or believed in a Supreme Being, A society ruled by reason had to believe in something, People who didn't believe in the afterlife, commonly known as atheists, were considered beasts because they rejected a state of rewards and punishments to the good and bad people after life on earth.
So, such a human being who is not afraid of anything but the laws is more likely to break them to satisfy his appetites.
. . Not a warm and fuzzy land for the nonbelievers,
It has to be said, Utopians despised atheists and treated them like animals and forbade them ranks and honors and stuff, however, they did not punish them in order to avoid hypocrisy: so that men are not tempted to lie or disguise their opinions.
Not that bad, huh
As I said, this was a perfect place with no private property, with slavery adulterers, watch out, with few laws and where everyone was happy with no legal problems to solve yup, More, being a great lawyer himself, apparently wasn't a big fan of lawyers.
. . sly creature!. Suddenly, a disturbing image comes to mind:
Jokes aside, this is an interesting book to read with a lot of coffee in your system.
A man imagined what a perfect country should be like, and yes, it is not that perfect, This book started a bit slow for me, but then it got better, I would recommend this to people who enjoy history, otherwise you can drink all the coffee Colombia has to offer, but you still won't reach page.
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