The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Ideas in Context)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 8, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521835459
Subjects: American history; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History of ideas, intellectual history; Political science & theory; Renaissance & Humanist philosophy; Politics/International Relations; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Ancient Greece; The Americas; Republicanism; History & Theory - General; Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science : Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism; Political Science : Political Ideologies - Democracy; Greece
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.