him • Made England a strong and powerful country founding the navy to keep the country from any harm • He founded a very good school that took on the new religion. Was not catholic • Some would even say he was drunk with power requesting executions more often then not‚ and sleeping with many different women that worked in the kingdom for his wives. • Henry made sure never to get too close to someone in the fear that they would take advantage of him and use his powers again himself • Although some
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impossible‚ so trying to come up plausible societies in which everything is perfect presents a kind of challenge for them. Of the many philosophers that have given their two cents on the matter‚ Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx’s are two of the more interesting ones. In Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality‚ he writes about this idea of man in the state of nature‚ and how that the primitive state of man would actually be the ideal form of society. In Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto he writes about
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been done away with. Instead the state is there to serve the people and ensure the peacefulness and happiness of everyone. The word utopia‚ which means "no place" in Greek‚ was first used to mean a perfect society in 1516 in the publication of Saint Thomas More’s story "Utopia". The story depicted life as it was with its people and social institutions on an imaginary island. More’s Utopia gained critical acclaim and a wide audience. The term was subsequently used by all prominent social thinkers
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and a historical play. Sir Thomas More‚ a "man of the greatest virtue this kingdom has ever produced" (Dean Swift)‚ is famous for choosing to suffer death rather than swearing to an oath that would counter his principles. Sir More had acquired a high position of Lord Chancellery under the reign of King Henry VIII‚ but stepped down since he could not do what the king had asked of him since this action would conflict with his beliefs and conscience. From that time‚ Sir More was in disagreement with King
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Comparison of Utopia and New Atlantis After reading Utopia by Thomas More and New Atlantis by Francis Bacon‚ it is evident that both authors impose two different attitudes of the way of life to an ideal society. More introduced an “ordered” way of life and Bacon introduced a “scientific” way of living. In More’s Utopia‚ it is evident that More’s belief is that human perfection would create a perfect society to live in. In Utopia‚ there is no poor man and no beggars and everyone has an occupation
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A Man for All Seasons: Questions on the Play – Act Two ACT TWO Scene 1. pp. 47-57 - Home of Sir Thomas More 1. Bolt has decided to skip two years in history and he uses the Common Man to summarize the intervening events for the audience. The Common Man reports that two Acts of Parliament have been passed. Do some Internet research and summarize what The Act of Supremacy and The Act of Succession state? What was the Treasons Act? The Act of Succession‚ passed in March of 1534‚ states that the
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other feelings of love lust and emotions. Coming from a long line of exiled writers John Donne ’s expressionism and second nature literary technique seems almost genetic. Being Sir Thomas More ’s fourth generation great nephew‚ Donne ’s ideas weren ’t too far from a Utopia. Unlike Utopia‚ which caused Sir Thomas More to be executed‚ Pseudo Martyr ‚ Donne ’s renunciation of the Catholic Faith gave him quite the platter of brownie points. Stating that the people could still follow the king and obey
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Hook: The term “utopia” was first appeared in the book “Utopia” by Sir Thomas More‚ in 1516. From Marx’s communism to The Seahaven in the Truman Show people in various times and cultures tried to create the perfect society— the utopia‚ however‚ they all ended in failure. Through the history of the predecessors‚ people wonder‚ is utopia achievable? If yes‚ what things do the people need to sacrifice in order to achieve the perfection? Transition: One of the examples of failed utopia is the society
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an American nation. In Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs and Utopia by Thomas Moore‚ we are presented two life styles‚ which some might consider very similar in various ways. Both authors focus on a peaceful living lifestyle‚ to better the people of the nation. Although some of their specific details are different‚ I believe that Jacobs would definitely approve of the features that More develops in Utopia. Utopia occupies a crescent-shaped island that curves in on itself‚ enclosing
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explored countless possible methods for achieving it. The resulting intellectual labors have produced such optimistic works as Plato’s Republic and Thomas Moore’s Utopia‚ claiming that logic and reason‚ as the distinguishing traits of humanity‚ are the conduits through which mankind may achieve a perfect society; however‚ the same pursuit of utopia has also more recently yielded modern literary works that claim that logic and reason are the very creators of societies that are infernal in nature‚ as illustrated
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