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Utopia ( Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia ) is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More (1478–1535) published in 1516 in Latin . The book is a frame narrative ...

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1551, from Modern Latin Utopia , literally "nowhere," coined by Thomas More (and used as title of his book, 1516, about an imaginary island enjoying the utmost perfection in legal, social, and political systems), from Greek ou "not" + topos "place" (see ...

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By far the commonest type of of galactic society was that in which many systems of worlds had developed independently, come into conflict, slaughtered one another, produced vast federations and empires, plunged again and again into social chaos, and struggled between whiles haltingly toward galactic Utopia.

And yet, in this final part of the Ethics, this utopia has only an abstract and indefinite relation to reality.

Numerous lectures, dealing not only with Fourierism, various Utopias and communism, but also with the problems of serfdom, judicial and military reforms, constitutionalist or revolutionary methods, enabled Dostoyevsky, who was quick to understand systems through partisan exposition, to acquire a fairly complete political education.

Blade repeated, recalling his discussion with Jaguarundi about Utopia, and grinned.

Borges assigns to that distortion of classification that prevents us from applying it, to that picture that lacks all spatial coherence, is a precise region whose name alone constitutes for the West a vast reservoir of Utopias.

Jesuits, strange as it may appear, did not conduct the missions after the fashion of a business concern, but rather as the rulers of some Utopia -- those foolish beings who think happiness is preferable to wealth.

Jewelry on the comer of State and Main, to walk me up the block to the Utopia for my first moviegoing experience --not even seated yet, waiting for my dad to show me what to do, where to sit, how to act .

Years earlier More had written, in his fantasy Utopia, against the enclosure of ploughland for sheep.

Utopia as anything that has been written during the last fifty years, with its innocent Rousseauian escapism, but even here dangers always lurk in the shadows, threatening to tear the gossamer security into fragments at the first sign of weakness.

Utopia, she learns that the comatose Kapera is under study along with a strange concoction in a thermos called Hyper-K.

We have tramped and botanised and come to a rest, and, sitting among rocks, we have eaten our lunch and finished our bottle of Yvorne, and fallen into a talk of Utopias, and said such things as I have been saying.

Throughout Utopia there is, of course, no other than provisional classifications, since every being is regarded as finally unique, but for political and social purposes things have long rested upon a classification of temperaments, which attends mainly to differences in the range and quality and character of the individual imagination.

The constitutions conceived by philosophers in their closets are constitutions only of Utopia or Dreamland.

The constitutions imagined by philosophers are for Utopia, not for any actual, living, breathing people.

Whether the Utopian company will be allowed to prefer this class of share to that or to issue debentures, whether indeed usury, that is to say lending money at fixed rates of interest, will be permitted at all in Utopia, one may venture to doubt.