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LITR 5439 Literary & Historical Utopias Instructor's Presentation |
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utopian motives: i.e., what social motives besides profit and property? are |
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wise philosopher-king as model for society
perpetual self-improvement
competition
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