Utopia (novel)

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:book
gptkbp:author gptkb:Thomas_More
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:England
gptkbp:countryOfPublication gptkb:Leuven,_Belgium
gptkbp:fullTitle gptkb:Libellus_vere_aureus,_nec_minus_salutaris_quam_festivus,_de_optimo_rei_publicae_statu_deque_nova_insula_Utopia
gptkbp:genre gptkb:philosophy
social satire
gptkbp:hasPart Book 1
Book 2
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Utopia (novel)
gptkbp:influenced utopian literature
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Plato's_Republic
gptkbp:literaryPeriod Renaissance humanism
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Raphael_Hythloday
gptkbp:mediaType gptkb:print
gptkbp:notableAdaptation various stage adaptations
gptkbp:notableIdea gptkb:colonialism
gptkb:family
gptkb:military
gptkb:soldier
botanist
pacifism
equality of men and women
religious ceremonies
religious freedom
religious tolerance
travel restrictions
universal education
religious pluralism
euthanasia
critique of European society
elected officials
abolition of private property
critique of monarchy
public health care
communal property
punishment for adultery
marriage customs
critique of war
six-hour workday
funeral customs
free hospitals
absence of class distinction
absence of crime
absence of greed
absence of lawyers
absence of luxury
absence of money
absence of poverty
absence of private property
absence of religious persecution
absence of unemployment
absence of war
critique of capital punishment
critique of enclosure movement
critique of lawyers
gold and silver used for chains for slaves
public dining halls
punishment for premarital sex
rotation of homes
slavery as punishment
slavery of criminals and prisoners of war
universal employment
work as a social duty
gptkbp:notableQuote For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:publicationDate 1516
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Dirk_Martens
gptkbp:setting fictional island of Utopia
gptkbp:subject ideal society
gptkbp:title gptkb:Utopia
gptkbp:translatedInto English translation by Ralph Robinson (1551)
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Farahat's_Republic
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6