Thomas More Flashcards
Utopia: More born
1478
Utopia: More dies
1535
Utopia: written in Latin
1516
Utopia: translated into English
1551
Utopia: which translation did you use? Why?
Robert Adams. It seemed adequate. It’s a revised version.
Utopia: studying stars in U
Astronomy, not astrology practiced (humanism)
Utopia: centers, model
Reason, much more than Cthlc doctrine, forming model of ideal
Utopia: Reason, model
Reason, much more than Cthlc doctrine, forming model of ideal
Utopia: Beowulf
Just cause for war: when people don’t use soil but forbid others from using it also; cf. Beowulf dragon
Utopia: war
Just cause for war: when people don’t use soil but forbid others from using it also; cf. Beowulf dragon
Utopia: gender
Female education & work
Utopia: community
Female education & work; free healthcare
Utopia: genre
Frame narrative; gives name to genre of Utopia but this goes back at least to Plato’s Republic; ANTI-EPIC
Utopia: innovation of genre, new approach, epic
Epic highlights historical counterfactuals to show necessity of present scenario; Utopia highlights historical counterfactuals to show unreasonableness of present
Utopia: tone
Ambiguous, playful, delight in rhetoric, ironic
Utopia: rhetoric
delights in Lucian. Occupatio: since we don’t have wars terribly often, let’s disregard the problem of crippled veterans in this discussion.
Utopia: dangerous subversion
King Henry VII being profligate (he wasn’t known for this but H8 was)
Utopia: formal differences between the two books
Book 1 a dialogue; book 2 a continuous presentation. Book 2 is divided into sections while Book 1 is more relaxed.
Utopia: culture examined
court culture
Utopia: setting
Frame: Bruges; Framed: New World Utopia
Utopia: capitol of Utopia
Amouroton
Utopia: characters
More, Hythloday, Utopians, with an argument to be made for Erasmus
Utopia: describe the Utopians’ philosophical persuasion
Epicurean (as Vespucci says of Native Americans); they despise riches, love learning, and work reasonable amounts
Utopia: what stir does Utopia make?
Prohibited by Catholic bishops of 16th-century Portugal and Spain
Utopia: when/where did More start writing it
on diplomatic mission to Netherlands
Utopia: the community influenced in part by
monastic communities
Utopia: audience
International audience of Latin speakers, humanists
Utopia: changes in ideology
Emerging market society w emphasis on ed & social mobility over hereditary privilege; dislike for old warrior aristocracy
Utopia: Vulgate
More correcting Vulgate by comparing Grk mnscrpts; reason, humanism
Utopia: influenced by a major previous phlsphcl work…
Plato’s Republic 380 BC
Utopia: a source for More in describing his New World setting
Amerigo Vespucci’s Four Voyages (1507) (discuss Epicureanism)
Utopia: a work he wrote in English
History of King Richard III, monstrous Richard > Shakespeare
Utopia: Shakespeare
History of King Richard III, monstrous Richard > Shakespeare
Utopia: Bible
Old Testament: Garden of Eden & New Jerusalem
Utopia: 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.
Utopia: invention
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.
Utopia: list intertextualities from before this work
Plato, Bible, Vespucci, Parva Logicalia, Beowulf
Utopia: list intertextualities for after this work
Bacon, Shakespeare, Huxley, Brookfarm, Pantisocracy, Joseph Smith
Utopia: chief talking point
Anti-epic; center for ideal society exists in reason, i.e., waiting for realization in the future
Utopia: taxonomy, organization, structure
Compare organization of two books
Utopia: connect to Plato in one word: Utopia is a(n) _____. Explain
Idea; it is a figure of the thing in its archetypal form–and this is based on the reason.
