In the 1516 novel Utopia by Thomas More, the island called Utopia once had the name " Abraxa ", which scholars have suggested is a related use.

More coined the word " utopia " – a name he gave to the ideal and imaginary island nation, the political system of which he described in Utopia, published in 1516.

More sketched out his best known and most controversial work, Utopia ( completed and published in 1516 ), a novel in Latin.

* Utopia ( 1516 ) ( CW 4 )

The word was coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean.

* Utopia ( 1516 ) by Thomas More.

The word utopia was first used in this context by Sir Thomas More in his 1516 work Utopia.

The title of Sir Thomas More's 1516 fictional work Utopia is a double entendre because of the pun between two Greek-derived words that would have identical pronunciation: with his spelling, it means " no place " ( as echoed later in Samuel Butler's later Erewhon ); spelled as the rare word Eutopia, it is pronounced the same by English-speaking readers, but has the meaning " good place ".

However, Henry himself appears to have been much more influenced by the opinions on monasticism of the humanists Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More, especially as found in Erasmus's work In Praise of Folly ( 1511 ) and More's Utopia ( 1516 ).

Parallels can be drawn from Thomas More's 1516 book Utopia, in which More describes an island with only one entrance and only one exit.

Sir Thomas More ( 1478 – 1535 ), Catholic Lord Chancellor of King Henry VIII and author, described a world of almost complete religious toleration in Utopia ( 1516 ), in which the Utopians " can hold various religious beliefs without persecution from the authorities.

Perhaps the first utopian socialist was Thomas More ( 1478-1535 ), who wrote about an imaginary socialist society in his satire Utopia, which was published in 1516.

* Utopia ( book ), a 1516 book by Thomas More

As long ago as 1516, Thomas More wrote in Utopia that,

* 1516: Saint Sir Thomas More publishes " Utopia " in Latin.

The term Utopia was invented by Thomas More as the title of his Latin book De Optimo Reipublicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia ( circa 1516 ), known more commonly as Utopia.

In fact, satires and philosophical works like Thomas More's Utopia ( 1516 ), Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel ( 1532 – 64 ), and even Erasmus's In Praise of Folly ( 1511 ) had established long fictions subservient to a philosophical purpose.

The book was dedicated to Prince Charles, who later became Habsburg Emperor Charles V. It was written by Desiderius Erasmus in 1516, the same year as Thomas More finished his Utopia and only three years after Machiavelli had written his antithetical advice book for princes Il Principe.

* Utopia, a name for an ideal community or society, taken from the title of a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More.

But far from being concerned about whether or not Russia will have achieved Utopia by 1980, the world is watching Moscow today primarily for clues as to whether or not there will be nuclear Armageddon in the immediate future.

The actual function of patristic communism was adequately set forth by St. Gregory almost a millenium before More wrote Utopia.

The Timaeus remained known in a Latin rendition by Calcidius through the Middle Ages, and the allegorical aspect of Atlantis was taken up by Humanists in utopian works of several Renaissance writers, such as Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Thomas More's Utopia.

While obtaining his master's degree, Alston was the boys ’ work director at the Utopia Children's House, started by James Lesesne Wells.

* Utopia of Usurers ( 1917 ) by G. K. Chesterton

As a satirical utopia, Erewhon has sometimes been compared to Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), a classic novel by Jonathan Swift ; the image of Utopia in this latter case also bears strong parallels with the self-view of the British Empire at the time.

Gold as a sign of wealth and prestige was ridiculed by Thomas More in his treatise Utopia.

A dialogue with my utopian self ( with apologies, and thanks, to H. G. Wells )", by Gregory Claeys in Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal, no 1, Spring 2006.

* Rock band The Flaming Lips perform the song " Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon ( Utopia Planitia )" on their 2002 release Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

* New Utopia, operated by Oklahoma City longevity promoter Howard Turney as a libertarian new country project was stopped by a United States federal court temporary restraining order from selling bonds and bank licenses.

* The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia ( 1974 ) by Ursula K. Le Guin

He rejected the notion of inalienable rights advanced by Locke and most contemporary capitalist-oriented libertarian academics, writing in Anarchy, State and Utopia that the typical notion of a " free system " would allow adults to voluntarily enter into non-coercive slave contracts.

" Utopia " presented, for the first time on-screen, a circumstance in which a character travels on the exterior of the TARDIS during a flight, when Jack Harkness was somehow able to grab hold of the TARDIS as it began to dematerialise and hold on to its destination ; the episode does establish, however, that a normal person would not have survived the trip, as Harkness is " killed " by the experience, but due to his immortality, soon revives.

Prior to his graduation at the top of his class, Adorno was already swept up by the revolutionary mood of the time, as is evidenced by his reading of Georg Lukacs's The Theory of the Novel that year, as well as by his fascination with Ernst Bloch's The Spirit of Utopia, of which he would later write:

Woodcut by Ambrosius Holbein for a 1518 edition of Utopia.

In addition, the song " So Says I " by indie rock outfit The Shins alludes to the socialist interpretation of More's Utopia.

* Thomas More and his Utopia by Karl Kautsky

# The Utopia Affair by McDaniel

The medieval was the most important to Chambers because he sought to place Thomas More, the author of Utopia, in some intelligible relation with St. Thomas More, the martyr.

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From St. Augustine of Hippo's City of God through St. Thomas More's Utopia major Christian writers defended ideas that socialists found agreeable.

While Catholic scholars maintain that More's attitude in composing Utopia was largely ironic and that he was an orthodox Christian, Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky argued in the book Thomas More and his Utopia ( 1888 ) that Utopia was a shrewd critique of economic and social exploitation in pre-modern Europe and that More was one of the key intellectual figures in the early development of socialist ideas.

In the sixteenth century, Thomas More's book Utopia proposed an ideal society of the same name.

* July 6 – Sir Thomas More, author of Utopia and one time Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason by King Henry VIII, after refusing to agree to Henry's decision to separate the English Church from the Roman Catholic Church.

* Thomas More publishes Utopia.

Sir Thomas More in his Utopia advocated the use of mercenaries in preference to citizens.

:— Utopia, Thomas More

Sir Thomas More's Utopia is one of the earliest examples of a cohesive fictional world with its own rules and functional concepts but it comprises only one small island.

The intellectual developments of the period included the creation of the economic theory of mercantilism and the publication of enduringly influential works of political and social philosophy, such as Machiavelli's The Prince ( 1513 ) and Thomas More's Utopia ( 1515 ).