WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1516 the statesman and scholar Thomas More published a work describing an ideal island state – he called it Utopia. The name derives from the Greek but has a double meaning ‘eutopia’ (good place) or ‘outopia’ (no place).

Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas More describes his ideal society which is an island because isolation on the outside is essential to the proper functioning of the ideal society. Utopia is a crescent-shaped island that contains fifty-four large cities and the distance between every city and another is 24 miles away.

Detailed explanation-3: -A utopia (/juːˈtoʊpiə/ yoo-TOH-pee-ə) typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its members. It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the New World.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term utopia is a coined word invented by Thomas More for the island described in his novel Utopia. Although the word has been widely used ever since his novel was published in 1561, its true definition remains ambiguous to this day.

Detailed explanation-5: -More’s description of an ideal society in Utopia is what leads to the leftist lionizing. His society has no private property, state ownership of the means of production, and extensive welfare programs for the poor and elderly. Because of these public policies, More seems to some to be a “proto-Communist.”

Detailed explanation-6: -More’s Utopian society is based on rational thought, communal property, productivity, no class distinctions or poverty, little crime or immoral behavior, religious freedom, and little violence. Hythloday continues to express his belief that Utopia is a superior society to any in Europe.