Thomas More

Question 1

Utopia: More born

Answer 1

1478

Question 2

Utopia: More dies

Answer 2

1535

Question 3

Utopia: written in Latin

Answer 3

1516

Question 4

Utopia: translated into English

Answer 4

1551

Question 5

Utopia: which translation did you use? Why?

Answer 5

Robert Adams. It seemed adequate. It’s a revised version.

Question 6

Utopia: studying stars in U

Answer 6

Astronomy, not astrology practiced (humanism)

Question 7

Utopia: centers, model

Answer 7

Reason, much more than Cthlc doctrine, forming model of ideal

Question 8

Utopia: Reason, model

Answer 8

Reason, much more than Cthlc doctrine, forming model of ideal

Question 9

Utopia: Beowulf

Answer 9

Just cause for war: when people don’t use soil but forbid others from using it also; cf. Beowulf dragon

Question 10

Utopia: war

Answer 10

Just cause for war: when people don’t use soil but forbid others from using it also; cf. Beowulf dragon

Question 11

Utopia: gender

Answer 11

Female education & work

Question 12

Utopia: community

Answer 12

Female education & work; free healthcare

Question 13

Utopia: genre

Answer 13

Frame narrative; gives name to genre of Utopia but this goes back at least to Plato’s Republic; ANTI-EPIC

Question 14

Utopia: innovation of genre, new approach, epic

Answer 14

Epic highlights historical counterfactuals to show necessity of present scenario; Utopia highlights historical counterfactuals to show unreasonableness of present

Question 15

Utopia: tone

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Ambiguous, playful, delight in rhetoric, ironic

Question 16

Utopia: rhetoric

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delights in Lucian. Occupatio: since we don’t have wars terribly often, let’s disregard the problem of crippled veterans in this discussion.

Question 17

Utopia: dangerous subversion

Answer 17

King Henry VII being profligate (he wasn’t known for this but H8 was)

Question 18

Utopia: formal differences between the two books

Answer 18

Book 1 a dialogue; book 2 a continuous presentation. Book 2 is divided into sections while Book 1 is more relaxed.

Question 19

Utopia: culture examined

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court culture

Question 20

Utopia: setting

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Frame: Bruges; Framed: New World Utopia

Question 21

Utopia: capitol of Utopia

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Amouroton

Question 22

Utopia: characters

Answer 22

More, Hythloday, Utopians, with an argument to be made for Erasmus

Question 23

Utopia: describe the Utopians’ philosophical persuasion

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Epicurean (as Vespucci says of Native Americans); they despise riches, love learning, and work reasonable amounts

Question 24

Utopia: what stir does Utopia make?

Answer 24

Prohibited by Catholic bishops of 16th-century Portugal and Spain

Question 25

Utopia: when/where did More start writing it

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on diplomatic mission to Netherlands

Question 26

Utopia: the community influenced in part by

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monastic communities

Question 27

Utopia: audience

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International audience of Latin speakers, humanists

Question 28

Utopia: changes in ideology

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Emerging market society w emphasis on ed & social mobility over hereditary privilege; dislike for old warrior aristocracy

Question 29

Utopia: Vulgate

Answer 29

More correcting Vulgate by comparing Grk mnscrpts; reason, humanism

Question 30

Utopia: influenced by a major previous phlsphcl work...

Answer 30

Plato's Republic 380 BC

Question 31

Utopia: a source for More in describing his New World setting

Answer 31

Amerigo Vespucci’s Four Voyages (1507) (discuss Epicureanism)

Question 32

Utopia: a work he wrote in English

Answer 32

History of King Richard III, monstrous Richard > Shakespeare

Question 33

Utopia: Shakespeare

Answer 33

History of King Richard III, monstrous Richard > Shakespeare

Question 34

Utopia: Bible

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Old Testament: Garden of Eden & New Jerusalem

Question 35

Utopia: Parva Logicalia

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Utopians’ learning only inferior to the Englishman’s in terms of “invention” such as children learn in Parva Logicalia—e.g. of nominalist philosophy humanists disliked.

Question 36

Utopia: invention

Answer 36

Parva Logicalia; Utopians’ learning only inferior to the Englishman’s in terms of “invention” such as children learn in Parva Logicalia—e.g. of nominalist philosophy humanists disliked.

Question 37

Utopia: list intertextualities from before this work

Answer 37

Plato, Bible, Vespucci, Parva Logicalia, Beowulf

Question 38

Utopia: list intertextualities for after this work

Answer 38

Bacon, Shakespeare, Huxley, Brookfarm, Pantisocracy, Joseph Smith

Question 39

Utopia: chief talking point

Answer 39

Anti-epic; center for ideal society exists in reason, i.e., waiting for realization in the future

Question 40

Utopia: taxonomy, organization, structure

Answer 40

Compare organization of two books

Question 41

Utopia: connect to Plato in one word: Utopia is a(n) _____. Explain

Answer 41

Idea; it is a figure of the thing in its archetypal form--and this is based on the reason.