Sir Thomas More
Sir Thomas More- UTOPIA
Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of King’s Bench, after his earlier education at St. Anthony’s, he was placed, as a boy, in the household of Cardinal John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor. It was not usual for persons of wealth or influence and sons of good families to be so established together in a relation of patron and client. The youth wore his patron’s livery, and added to his state. The patron used, afterwards, his wealth or influence in helping his young client forward in the world. Thomas More is travelling as Henry the Eighth’s ambassador in the Low Countries in the early 1500s when he encounters his friend Peter Giles. Giles introduces More to an acquaintance of his, Raphael Hythloday, who is with Giles at the time. His book ,,Utopia” describes a perfect society governed by an ideal socio-politico-legal system. Therefore, the idea of the impossibility of a perfect society is built into the very name of the genre. In common parlance, people will refer to an impossible or unrealistic proposal as “utopian.” In this sense, the term is emphasizing not the perfection but the naïveté of such projects. Focusing on what he saw as the main problem of his time, More emphasized social order, conformity, meaningful work, and religious tolerance, sometimes termed “toleration.” More tries to implement these concepts in his country. As the author of Utopia, More has also attracted the admiration of modern socialists. While Catholic scholars maintain that More's attitude in composing Utopia was largely ironic and that he was an orthodox Christian, Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky argued in the book Thomas More and his Utopia (1888) that Utopia was a shrewd critique of economic and social exploitation in pre-modern Europe and that More was one of the key intellectual figures in the early development of socialist ideas. Others have seen in it an attempt at mythologizing Indian
Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of King’s Bench, after his earlier education at St. Anthony’s, he was placed, as a boy, in the household of Cardinal John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor. It was not usual for persons of wealth or influence and sons of good families to be so established together in a relation of patron and client. The youth wore his patron’s livery, and added to his state. The patron used, afterwards, his wealth or influence in helping his young client forward in the world. Thomas More is travelling as Henry the Eighth’s ambassador in the Low Countries in the early 1500s when he encounters his friend Peter Giles. Giles introduces More to an acquaintance of his, Raphael Hythloday, who is with Giles at the time. His book ,,Utopia” describes a perfect society governed by an ideal socio-politico-legal system. Therefore, the idea of the impossibility of a perfect society is built into the very name of the genre. In common parlance, people will refer to an impossible or unrealistic proposal as “utopian.” In this sense, the term is emphasizing not the perfection but the naïveté of such projects. Focusing on what he saw as the main problem of his time, More emphasized social order, conformity, meaningful work, and religious tolerance, sometimes termed “toleration.” More tries to implement these concepts in his country. As the author of Utopia, More has also attracted the admiration of modern socialists. While Catholic scholars maintain that More's attitude in composing Utopia was largely ironic and that he was an orthodox Christian, Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky argued in the book Thomas More and his Utopia (1888) that Utopia was a shrewd critique of economic and social exploitation in pre-modern Europe and that More was one of the key intellectual figures in the early development of socialist ideas. Others have seen in it an attempt at mythologizing Indian