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More'S Utopia is a Complex; Innovative and Penetrating Contribution to Political Thought; Culminating in the Famous 'Description' of the Utopians; Who Live According to the Principles of Natural Law; But Are Receptive to Christian Teachings; Who Hold All Possessions in Common; and View Gold as Worthless. Drawing on the Ideas of Plato; st Augustine And Aristotle; Utopia Was to Prove Seminal in its Turn; Giving Rise to the Genres of Utopian and Dystopian Prose Fiction Whose Practitioners Include Sir Francis Bacon; H.G. Wells; Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. At Once a Critique of the Social Consequences of Greed and a Meditation on the Personal Cost of Entering Public Service; Utopia Dramatises the Difficulty of Balancing the Competing Claims of Idealism and Pragmatism; and Continues to Invite its Readers to Become Participants in a Compelling Debate Concerning the Best State of a Commonwealth. ISBN: 9781853264740