an ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions. Hence “utopian” and “utopianism” are words used to denote visionary reform that tends to be impossibly idealistic. The word first occurred in Sir...

"Utopia" is a term that English statesman and author Thomas More coined in the early sixteenth century in his novel of the same name. It is derived from two Greek words:Eutopia (meaning "good place") and Outopia (meaning...

Utopianism is an approach to social or political theory based upon the design of a perfect society (a ‘utopia’, after the title of Sir Thomas More’s example of the genre, from 1516, using an imaginary island of that name). Earlier...

An ideal state suggested in Plato’s Republic and Thomas More’s Utopia. In subsequent centuries many socialists, including OWEN and FOURIER, devised utopian community schemes. Many utopias attempt to minimize the amount of work and division...

Originally the title of a book by Sir Thomas More (1477–1535). The term is now used to describe an imaginary or hypothetical (especially impossible to achieve) realm or State in which everything is...

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De Optimo Reipublicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More. The book, written in Classical Latin, is a frame narrative...