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The New Republic
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A Commentary on Book I of Moreâ (Tm)S Utopia Showing Its Relation to Platoâ (Tm)S Republic
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Artikel-Nr:
9780889209787
Veröffentl:
1990
Erscheinungsdatum:
02.05.1990
Seiten:
136
Autor:
Colin Starnes
Gewicht:
370 g
Format:
241x157x12 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Colin Starnes teaches Patristics in the Classics Department at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia He has written numerous articles on the transition from antiquity to the medieval period.
Colin Starnes radical interpretation of the long-recognized affinity of Thomas More's Utopia and Plato's Republic confirms the intrinsic links between the two works. Through commentary on More's own introduction to Book I, the author shows the Republic is everywhere present as the model of the "best commonwealth," which More must first discredit as the root cause of the dreadful evils in the collapsing political situation of sixteenth-century Europe. Starnes demonstrates how More, once having shorn the Republic of what was applicable to a society that had for a thousand years accepted and been moved by the Christian revelation, then "Christianized" it to arrive at one of the earliest and most coherent accounts of the ideal modern state: the description of Utopia in Book II.