More's Utopia

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Mind Map on More's Utopia, created by Saoirse Burnell on 01/12/2014.
Saoirse Burnell
Mind Map by Saoirse Burnell, updated more than 1 year ago
Saoirse Burnell
Created by Saoirse Burnell about 11 years ago
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More's Utopia
  1. Book I
    1. More in conversation with traveller Raphael Hytholoday and fictional friend Peter
      1. There is something particularly English in the cause of theft
        1. Direct criticism of enclosure
          1. Stops the course of agriculture, destroys houses, towns, parks and forests just for the nobility
            1. Poor but numerous families
              1. Social and economic structure causes stealing
              2. Hanging is not just for petty theft
              3. Critiques social system; enclosure, heirarchy, waste and laziness, class structure, attitudes to work
                1. Critiques legal system; punishment of theft by hanging is neither effective nor just
                  1. critiques economic system; private property and money
                    1. Humanism; we should create good citizens. Morality and expediency; what is just and what works. The role of the kings counsel; should be able to tell the truth regardless of social inequality.
                    2. Book II
                      1. Hytholoday describes commonwealth of Utopia
                        1. No private property
                          1. Respected as it is everyones.
                            1. Eat healthily together in common halls
                              1. Leisure time each day
                                1. Education - lectures
                                  1. Creates good citizens
                              2. Value things because they are useful not rare
                                1. eg. Glass
                                  1. Invert the value of things eg. Gold for toilet seats and slaves chains
                                  2. Slavery
                                    1. People from near by towns come to be slaves
                                      1. Slavery as punishment for crimes
                                      2. Adultry
                                        1. If twice, killed
                                        2. Euthanasia is part of Utopia
                                          1. Worship one God but tolerant
                                            1. One Prince for life
                                              1. Deals in senate with everyday matters, can remit or lighten punishment
                                                1. 20 tranibors/protophylarchs
                                                  1. One per ten phylarchss/syphogrants
                                                    1. 200 phylarchs/syphogrants each over 30 households
                                                      1. 10-16 adults in city, rural less than forty, eldest man and woman are rulers
                                                        1. 13 priests and one high priest
                                                  2. General council = three representatives from each city
                                                  3. Utopians act as magistrates for other countries, secret agents work in enemy countries and serve as assasins
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