Thomas Morus

Thomas Morus: Utopia

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

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Sir Thomas More was an English statesman and humanist author of the Renaissance. Because he refused to take the required oath of royal supremacy over the church, the king had him executed as a high traitor in 1535.

His best-known work is De optimo statu rei publicae deque nova insula Utopia ("A little, true book, not less beneficial than enjoyable, about how things should be in a state and about the new island Utopia"), in which he described an invented island kingdom with a very different social structure from that which prevailed in England at his time. In the city-state of this island, a kind of communism prevails: The interests of the individual are subordinated to those of the community. Like in an (ideal) monastery, everyone is obliged to work and education and enjoys religious tolerance. Land and soil are common property.

Thomas Morus

Thomas Morus: Utopia

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