{"id":15090,"date":"2020-11-24T09:11:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T09:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/24\/utopia\/"},"modified":"2020-11-24T09:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T09:11:01","slug":"utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/24\/utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><header>\n<h1>Week 7: Utopia<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<p>More published\u00a0<em>Utopia<\/em>\u00a0in 1516 in the midst of political, social, and religious upheaval in England and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>In England, King Henry VIII was a powerful, even tyrannical leader who was amassing great debts and greater control over life in the realm. More was a councillor to Henry VIII and, from 1529 to 1532, Lord High Chancellor, a powerful position in the British Cabinet today in charge of the independence of the judiciary. In More\u2019s day, it meant he was essentially the highest judge in the realm, a position he used to thwart Henry\u2019s efforts to obtain a divorce, and head of the Royal Court, called the \u2018<em>curia regis<\/em>,\u2019 that would eventually evolve into the House of Lords in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>A year after More published\u00a0<em>Utopia<\/em>, the Protestant Reformation began in earnest with Luther\u2019s publication of the\u00a0<em>Ninety-Five Treatises<\/em>, followed by Henry\u2019s creation of the Church of England, with himself as the Head of the Church, beginning in 1529 and completed in 1537. More resisted Henry\u2019s efforts, and in 1533, More refused to attend the coronation of Anne Boleyn, Henry\u2019s second wife, as Queen of England, and More refused to take the Oath of Supremacy of the Crown, seeing the Pope as the final authority on topics like divorce. More was arrested, charged with treason, and beheaded in 1535.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading Questions for\u00a0<em>Utopia<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>1. Utopia is a layered pun\u2013as our editors note, in Greek, the word \u2018<em>ou-topos<\/em>\u2018 translates as \u2018no place,\u2019 but \u2018<em>eu-topos<\/em>,\u2019 which sounds the same, means \u2018good place,\u2019 (A side note, the NBC tv show \u2018The Good Place\u2019 is FULL of puns, philosophical discussions, and very much in the vein of More\u2019s work\u2013it\u2019s a great show, highly recommended), and More\u2019s critique of contemporary English and European society comes from the great differences between the no\/good island he imagines here. So, let\u2019s start with the idea of a good place that may not exist\u2013is More\u2019s island a place you\u2019d like to visit? Why or why not? What details stand out either way?<\/p>\n<p>2. As well as the pun on no\/good place, More puns with the name of the man who tells of Utopia, Raphael Hythloday, whose name ironically connects the archangel Raphael, who is the angel of healing in Judaism, Catholicism, and Islam, with nonsense, as his last name translates from Greek as \u201cdispenser of nonsense.\u201d What then do we do with Hythloday\u2019s \u2018testimony?\u2019 Is it meant to \u2018heal\u2019 England and Europe? Or just nonsense because he tells us of Utopia\u2019s ways which include communism and no private property rights, e.g.?<\/p>\n<p>3. The island\u2019s features, which we see on our pages 395-96, tells us that there are 54 cities on the island, that they have a great council at Amaurot, and that everyone from each city must give up two years of their lives to common labor\u2013though Utopia does have slaves, as seen on p. 396. How can a \u2018good place\u2019 have slavery, we might well ask? England of course had slaves both at home and in their colonies. The Utopians also have no money, but simply share among the cities the excesses of their harvests as needed\u2013does this sound good to you? Many critiques of socialism and communism begin with the premise that only the promise of wealth (or threat of punishment) can induce people to do the hard labor of farm work or other difficult labor\u2013do you buy that argument as contrasted here?<\/p>\n<p>4. What about the conducting of war? The Utopians, Hythloday tells More, rarely go to war, but when they do, they generally use foreign mercenaries\u2013what do you think that More might be getting at, especially given that the European states of his day were constantly at war with each other on land and sea? They also pay these mercenaries in gold and silver, which they have little use for\u2013what does that suggest to us about More\u2019s view of such in his society?<\/p>\n<p>5. Finally, the last section in our excerpt concerns religion, perhaps the most contentious issue of More\u2019s day in England and Europe. What does it mean to you that Utopians worship a Supreme Being, but were not particularly disposed to hear about Christ or the Catholic Church, and were able to worship as they please, but not able to use any force but persuasion and reason to create fellowships?<\/p>\n<p>Are there any other points you want to raise? Please do so in the comments.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/orders\/ordernow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTyj99p60XCLyLk1htB7-1neRt8-2QdnenNlQ&usqp=CAU\"target=\"_http:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/orders\/ordernow\"\/><\/center><p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 7: Utopia More published\u00a0Utopia\u00a0in 1516 in the midst of political, social, and religious upheaval in England and Europe. 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