UTOPIA

Sir Thomas More

English lawyer and author

Councillor to Henry VIII
Born in London, 1478

Utopia - no place/good place

Written in Latin
Leuven 1516
Antwerp

The island of Utopia

Originally a peninsula
54 cities
Amaurot the capital city

Generalities
No lawyers
No private properties
Religion toleration

Order and discipline

Philosophers
Politics

Interesting facts
There is noprivate propertyon Utopia;
There are also no locks on the doors of the

houses, which are rotated between the

citizens every ten years;
Agriculture is the most important job on the
island;
All people wear the same types of simple
clothes and there are nodressmakersmaking
fine apparel;
Slaveryis a feature of Utopian life and it is
reported that every household has two slaves.
The slaves are either from other countries or

Meals are taken in communitydining hallsand

the job of feeding the population is given to a

different household in turn;
Travel on the island is only permitted with
aninternal passportand any people found
without a passport are, on a first occasion,
returned in disgrace, but after a second offence
they are placed in slavery;
Utopians do not like to engage in war. However
they try to capture, rather than kill, enemies;
There are several religions on the island:moonworshipers,sun-worshipers,planetworshipers,ancestor-worshipersand
monotheists, but each is tolerant of the others.

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