Thomas More og Utopia

English statesman, humanist and legally qualified; of the Catholic Church blessed elected in 1886 and in 1935 he was canonized. More was educated as a lawyer, and was admitted as a solicitor in 1502, in 1504 he became Member of Parliament. After Henry 8.s coronation in 1509 he began his ascent to the pinnacle of power, as he became legal adviser to the City of London.

Mores most famous literary work is the fictional travelogue Utopia (1516, latest published on Danish in 1993), also written in Latin; the concept of utopia was emerged from the book's title, constructed Greek word that means 'nowhere land'. In Utopia More describes a society that is built around the family and in which private property and monetary economics are not there. On the island of Utopia is the health care system extended, all citizens are active and there are few state differences. The book contains a lot of satire of the situation in Europe, but since the release its message has been very controversial. Is it a satire of contemporary conditions? Or describes More an ideal of a future, socialist arranged society? Or is the book an expression of a turbulent age desire for a more primitive and organic society? Precisely because of its ambiguous has Utopia imprisoned the future.