Utopia - Derivation of utopia

Utopian, in its most common and general positive meaning, refers to the human efforts to create a better, or perhaps perfect society. Ideas which could/are considered able to radically change our world are often called utopian ideas. "Utopian" in a negative meaning is used to discredit ideas as too advanced, too optimistic or unrealistic, impossible to realize. Hence, for example, the use by Marxists ...

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• Utopia - Derivation of utopia
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• Utopia - Types of utopia
• Utopia - Economic utopia
• Utopia - Political and historical utopia
• Utopia - Religious utopia
• Utopia - Scientific and technological utopia
• Utopia - Examples of utopia

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Utopia - Utopia's Family. Adjective - utopian: According to Oxford dictionary, it is usually used negatively to criticise proposals or ideas having or aiming for a level of perfection of utopia which is impossible or very difficult to achieve. Noun - utopian: The word utopian can be used as a noun to mean someone who imagines, proposes, or supports a utopia. See also:

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Thomas More depicts a rationally organised society, through the narration of an explorer who discovers it - Raphael Hythlodaeus. Utopia is based on Plato's Republic, although More extended the communism of property to all citizens. Furthermore it is a perfect version of The Republic where the beauties of society, eg. equalism and a general pacifist attitude, although its citizens were all ready to fight if need be. The evils of society, eg. poverty and misery, are all removed. It has few laws, no lawyers and rarely sends its ci ...

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Utopia - Economic utopia. Particularly in the early nineteenth century, several utopian ideas arose, often in response to the social disruption created by the development of commercialism and capitalism. These are often grouped in a greater "utopian socialist" movement, due to their shared characteristics: an egalitarian distribution of goods, frequently with the total abolition of money, and citizens only doing work which they enjoy and which is for the common good, leaving them with ample time for the cultivati ...

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