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The New Republic: A Commentary on Book I of More’s Utopia Showing Its Relation to Plato’s Republic
The New Republic: A Commentary on Book I of More’s Utopia Showing Its Relation to Plato’s Republic
The New Republic: A Commentary on Book I of More’s Utopia Showing Its Relation to Plato’s Republic
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The New Republic: A Commentary on Book I of More’s Utopia Showing Its Relation to Plato’s Republic

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Colin Starnes radical interpretation of the long-recognized affinity of Thomas More’s Utopia and Plato’s Republic confirms the intrinsic links between the two works. Through commentary on More’s own introduction to Book I, the author shows the Republic is everywhere present as the model of the “best commonwealth,” which More must first discredit as the root cause of the dreadful evils in the collapsing political situation of sixteenth-century Europe. Starnes demonstrates how More, once having shorn the Republic of what was applicable to a society that had for a thousand years accepted and been moved by the Christian revelation, then “Christianized” it to arrive at one of the earliest and most coherent accounts of the ideal modern state: the description of Utopia in Book II.

Knowing this radically new view of a long-recognized position may be questioned, the author has included a criticism and appreciation of the other major lines of interpretation concerning More’s Utopia.

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Release dateJan 1, 2006
ISBN9780889205956
The New Republic: A Commentary on Book I of More’s Utopia Showing Its Relation to Plato’s Republic
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Colin Starnes

Colin Starnes teaches Patristics in the Classics Department at Dalhousie University in Halifax. In addition to publishing numerous articles on the transition from antiquity to the medieval period, he is the author of The New Republic: A Commentary on Book I of More’s Utopia Showing Its Relation to Plato’s Republic (WLU Press, 1990).

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