# Utopia

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- Book: [Utopia](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-more/utopia) ([Utopia.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-more/utopia.md))
- Authors: [Thomas More](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-more)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4138-268-4
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2020-02-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

In Utopia , Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all. As the traveller, Raphael, describes the island to More, a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society and the custom-driven practices of Europe. So how can the philosopher try to reform his society? In his fictional discussion, More takes up a question first raised by Plato and which is still a challenge in the contemporary world. In the history of political thought few works have been more influential than Utopia , and few more misunderstood.