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    Student:

    Subject: English
    Professor:

    UTOPIA - UTOPIANISM
    „THE ORDER OF THE STATE HAS ONE SOLE PURPOSE: IF ALL

    THE BASIC NEEDS OF SOCIETY ALLOW, IT IS POSSIBLE FOR

    ALL CITIZENS TO SHORTEN THEIR TIME DEVOTED TO ENSLAVING

    THEIR OWN BODIES AND TO COMMIT TO NURTURING THE FREE SPIRIT.

    THERE LIES THE KEY OF LIFE’S HAPPINESS, THEY SAY.”

    Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb


    January 2020
    CONTENT

    1. CLASSIFICATION OF VARIOUS FORMS OF GOVERNMENT


    2. THOMAS MORE
    3. UTOPIA BY THE BOOK
    4. LIFESTYLE AND BELIEFS OF UTOPIANS
    5. UTOPIANISM
    6. BIBLIOGRAPHY
    CLASSIFICATION OF VARIOUS FORMS
    OF GOVERNMENT
    • Principal concern of political analysis
    • WHY?
    • Comparison as the most important research weapon
    • What is? >>> What should be?
    Plato – The Republic
    Thomas More – Utopia
    Peter Kropotkin – Fields, Factories and workshops
    THOMAS MORE – A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS!
    A SAINT AMONG THE POLITICIANS!
    • 1477 – 1535
    • Reinassance man
    • First secular chancellor of the King
    • 1516 Utopia
    UTOPIA BY THE BOOK

    • "On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia”
    • Main characters: Thomas More
    Pieter Gilles
    Raphael Hytlodaeus
    • Book 1 – philosophical discussions
    • Book 2 – description of the island Utopia
    • King Utopos
    • Arrangement of the state:
    Amaurot – capital city
    Households – Syphogranti – Tranibori – Superior
    Senate
    Discussion of government matters = death penalty
    Villages feed the whole country
    LIFESTYLE AND BELIEFS OF UTOPIANS

    • NO PRIVATE PROPERTY
    • NO MONEY
    • CONTEMPT TOWARDS GOLD, SILVER OR DIAMONDS
    • SOLIDARITY, UNITY AND EQUALITY
    • NURTURING THE FREE SPIRIT
    UTOPIANISM

    • „style of political theorising that develops a critique of the existing


    order by constructing a model of ideal alternate”
    • Marxism
    • Socialism
    QUIZ

    1. What is the name of the first Utopian king?


    2. What is the name of the traveler and philosopher who talks about
    Utopia?
    3. How many households does one Syphograntus have?
    4. What is the punishment for talking about government matters
    outside of the Senate?
    5. What is the true purpose of life according to Utopians?
    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Heywood, Andrew (2007) Politics. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire:


    Palgrave Foundations.
    More, Thomas (1516/2003) Utopia. Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Globus.
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

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