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Utopia as Parody of Humanist and Ecclesiastical Thought.
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Utopia: Unintended Consequences
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Hoaby
Unintended Consequences:
Flaws in Utopian Society
Prepared for the MPSA Conference, April 2005
Scott Hoaby
Abstract
This paper takes a different view than much existing literature on what More may have been doing by writing Utopia. Rather than Utopia being a model society for officials to emulate in Christian European commonwealths, this paper takes the position that More was criticizing political or social theories that were being theorized to change Europe. Taking into account the fact that More was a lawyer and trained to recognize good from bad laws, this paper asserts that a witty More was seriocomically and subtlely suggesting deleterious side-effects or unintentional consequences of Utopian ideas. Both contextual and textual analyses are utilized in this paper, taking into account not only Books I and II of Utopia, but also the supporting letters in the book and Utopian-related correspondences that are not part of the published Utopia.
Scott E. Hoaby is a graduate student at UCLA. His fields are Political Theory and Comparative Politics.
This paper is presently a work in progress. For an updated version, please contact the author at ## email not listed ##.
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Utopia: Unintended Consequences
SE
Hoaby
Unintended Consequences:
Flaws in Utopian Society
Prepared for the MPSA Conference, April 2005
Scott Hoaby
Abstract
This paper takes a different view than much existing literature on what More may have been
doing by writing Utopia. Rather than Utopia being a model society for officials to emulate in
Christian European commonwealths, this paper takes the position that More was criticizing
political or social theories that were being theorized to change Europe. Taking into account the
fact that More was a lawyer and trained to recognize good from bad laws, this paper asserts that
a witty More was seriocomically and subtlely suggesting deleterious side-effects or unintentional
consequences of Utopian ideas. Both contextual and textual analyses are utilized in this paper,
taking into account not only Books I and II of Utopia, but also the supporting letters in the book
and Utopian-related correspondences that are not part of the published Utopia.
Scott E. Hoaby is a graduate student at UCLA. His fields are Political Theory and Comparative Politics.
This paper is presently a work in progress. For an updated version, please contact the author at
## email not listed ##.
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