A VISION OF AN IDEAL SOCIETY IN UTOPIA BY THOMAS MORE
Abstract
This article examines More's vision of an ideal society, analyzing its fundamental principles, internal conflicts, and enduring significance as both a political treatise and a literary work. The work innovates by combining political theory with the emerging genre of the travelogue, a form that allowed European writers to critique their own societies through the invented perspective of an outsider observing alien customs.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Utopian
Dystopian
and Speculative Fiction
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 27 January 2026