The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Ideas in Context)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780521024280
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History of ideas, intellectual history; Political science & theory; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Ancient Greece; History & Theory - General; Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science-Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism; Political Science-Political Ideologies - Democracy; Greece; Republicanism
First sentence: At the end of Sir Thomas More's Utopia the character "More" rejects Raphael Hythloday's suggestion that the Utopians have achieved the optimus reipublicae status ("the best state of a commonwealth"): When Raphael had finished his story, I was left thinking that not a few of the laws and customs he had described as existing among the Utopians were really absurd.