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

Colin Starnes

Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1990

The New Republic

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

Colin Starnes

https://doi.org/10.51644/9780889205956

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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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Starnes Colin :

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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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
Author's Note Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Commentary on Book I of More's Utopia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
On Hexter's Account of More's Visit to Antwerp in 1515 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
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Language: English
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 136
Keywords: Philosophy; Literary Criticism

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Published: January 1, 2006
ISBN: 9780889205956