Model States (Ch. 3)

Question 1

Utopia

Answer 1

Any visionary system embodying perfect political and social order.

Question 2

Dystopia

Answer 2

A society whose creators set out to build the perfect political order only to discover that they cannot remain in power except through coercion and by maintaining a ruthless monopoly over the means of communication.

Question 3

Plato’s Utopia

Answer 3

Philosopher-King is the ruler, and the guardians follow as well as the tradesman. Hierarchy based on amount of wisdom

Question 4

Marx’s Utopia

Answer 4

This utopia is one with a “classless society”. (Eliminate Private Property and division of labor, also eliminate social inequality)

Question 5

Bacon’s Utopia

Answer 5

Based on investigations, research, and experiments (create advanced form of medicine)