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Thomas More Flashcards

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Utopia: More born

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1478

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Utopia: More dies

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1535

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Utopia: written in Latin

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1516

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Utopia: translated into English

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1551

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Utopia: which translation did you use? Why?

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

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Utopia: studying stars in U

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Astronomy, not astrology practiced (humanism)

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Utopia: centers, model

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

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Utopia: Reason, model

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

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Utopia: Beowulf

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

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Utopia: war

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

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Utopia: gender

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Female education & work

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Utopia: community

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Female education & work; free healthcare

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Utopia: genre

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

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Utopia: innovation of genre, new approach, epic

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

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Utopia: tone

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Ambiguous, playful, delight in rhetoric, ironic

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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.

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Utopia: dangerous subversion

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

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Utopia: formal differences between the two books

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

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Utopia: culture examined

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court culture

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Utopia: setting

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Frame: Bruges; Framed: New World Utopia

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Utopia: capitol of Utopia

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Amouroton

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Utopia: characters

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

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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

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Utopia: what stir does Utopia make?

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

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Utopia: when/where did More start writing it

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on diplomatic mission to Netherlands

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Utopia: the community influenced in part by

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monastic communities

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Utopia: audience

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International audience of Latin speakers, humanists

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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

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Utopia: Vulgate

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More correcting Vulgate by comparing Grk mnscrpts; reason, humanism

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Utopia: influenced by a major previous phlsphcl work…

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Plato’s Republic 380 BC

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

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

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Utopia: a work he wrote in English

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History of King Richard III, monstrous Richard > Shakespeare

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Utopia: Shakespeare

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History of King Richard III, monstrous Richard > Shakespeare

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Utopia: Bible

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Old Testament: Garden of Eden & New Jerusalem

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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.

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Utopia: invention

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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.

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Utopia: list intertextualities from before this work

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Plato, Bible, Vespucci, Parva Logicalia, Beowulf

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Utopia: list intertextualities for after this work

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

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Utopia: chief talking point

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

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Utopia: taxonomy, organization, structure

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Compare organization of two books

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

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

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