Added by: dovesnake | Karma: 1384.51 | Fiction literature | 18 April 2008
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Utopia by Sir Thomas More
Sir Thomas More, was an English lawyer, author, and statesman. During
his lifetime he earned a reputation as a leading humanist scholar. More
coined the word "utopia", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island
nation whose political system he described in a book published in 1516.
Common Sense Philosophy In the first century BC the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero claimed “There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it”. Indeed, in the history of Western thought, philosophers have rarely been credited with having much common sense. In the 17th century Francis Bacon made the point rather poetically and wrote “Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high”.
