Length4h 25m
About this audiobook
In 1516, a brilliant English lawyer and humanist named Thomas More invented a word. He called it Utopia—a pun crafted from Greek that means both “Good Place” (eutopia) and “No Place” (outopia). More than five centuries later, we still use that word. But the book that gave it to us is far stranger, funnier, and darker than its legacy suggests.
It begins with fact. More, a real historical figure, travels to Flanders on royal business. In Antwerp, he meets his friend Peter Giles and a weathered, sun-bronzed sailor named Raphael Hythloday—whose surname, for those paying attention, translates wryly as “skilled in nonsense.” Hythloday claims to have sailed with Amerigo Vespucci and been left behind on the far edge of the New World. There, he discovered an island: Utopia.
Here, there is no private property. Gold is used for chamber pots. Atheists are tolerated, though not permitted to argue in public. Divorce is legal. Euthanasia is compassionate. Priests may marry. War is outsourced to mercenaries. And every household, in this most perfect of commonwealths, owns two slaves.
Utopia unfolds as a literary hall of mirrors. Is this the blueprint for an ideal society—or a satire so subtle that for four hundred years, half its readers have missed the joke? Is Raphael a philosopher, or a fool? Did More endorse this vision, or was he exposing the impossibility of human perfection?
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government, Philosophy, Psychology
Length4 hrs 25 mins
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LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
6OF THEIR TRAFFIC
2DISCOURSES OF RAPHAEL HYTHLODAY, OF THE BEST STATE OF A COMMONWEALTH
7OF THE TRAVELLING OF THE UTOPIANS
3OF THEIR TOWNS, PARTICULARLY OF AMAUROT
8OF THEIR SLAVES, AND OF THEIR MARRIAGES
4OF THEIR MAGISTRATES
9OF THEIR MILITARY DISCIPLINE
5OF THEIR TRADES, AND MANNER OF LIFE
10OF THE RELIGIONS OF THE UTOPIANS
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