LITR 5439 Literary & Historical Utopias

Instructor's Presentation



utopian motives:

i.e., what social motives besides profit and property? are

 

 

wise philosopher-king as model for society

 

 

perpetual self-improvement

 

 

 

competition

 

 

emulation

 

 

models for better living

 

 

 

 

children

 

 

 

 

nation / community as extended family

 

 

 

 

More, Utopia, Of the Traveling of the Utopians: . . . "[A]ccording to their plenty or scarcity, they supply or are supplied from one another, so that indeed the whole island is, as it were, one family." (42)

 

 

 

4 patterns might be taken for correcting the errors of these nations among whom we live

31 gardens, emulation by streets [civic competition]

35 even the Syphogrants . . . work, that by their examples they may excite the industry of the rest of the people

 

 


Campanella's City of the Sun