At the end of Sir Thomas More's Utopia the character "More" rejects Raphael Hythloday's suggestion that the Utopians have achieved the optimus reipublicae status ("the best state of a commonwealth"): When Raphael had finished his story, I was left thinking that not a few of the laws and customs he had described as existing among the Utopians were really absurd.
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Greece, politics and government, RepublicanismEdition | Availability |
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The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Ideas in Context)
February 13, 2006, Cambridge University Press
Paperback
in English
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The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Ideas in Context)
March 8, 2004, Cambridge University Press
Hardcover
in English
0521835453 9780521835459
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"At the end of Sir Thomas More's Utopia the character "More" rejects Raphael Hythloday's suggestion that the Utopians have achieved the optimus reipublicae status ("the best state of a commonwealth"): When Raphael had finished his story, I was left thinking that not a few of the laws and customs he had described as existing among the Utopians were really absurd."
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