More’s Utopia Book I: Private Property Issues and Resolutions
In the well written Utopian book called Utopia by Thomas More, book one of two focuses on the intricate conversation between the narrator, Thomas More, his good friend Peter Giles, as well as the extremely knowledgeable Raphael Hythloday. The three have a heated conversation about Hythloday’s long journey to the Utopians. Within this conversation, may issues and attempted resolutions are brought up. What particularly stood out, was the issue of private property. This essay will focus on how the conversation of private property brings up issues within human nature and psychology, social and cultural issues, and political and economical issues. The end of this essay will then finish …show more content…
Plato finishes his argument with this statement, “ In such nations, whatever a man can get he calls his own private property; but all the mass of laws enacted day after day don 't enable him to secure his own or to defend it, or even to distinguish it from someone else 's property - as is shown by innumerable and interminable lawsuits, fresh ones everyday ” (37). What Plato means by this, is that “private” property is really not private. The law does not maintain true privacy to the property because anyone can steal within it, damage it, and so on. From this, there are new laws, along with more lawsuits only causing more dilema within the government and no happy …show more content…
Before getting into detail about his opinion with the three men, Plato suggests this “ So I Reflect on the wonderfully wise and sacred institutions of the Utopians, who are so well governed with so few laws. Among them virtue has its reward, yet everything is shared equally, and everyone lives in plenty” (37). Ultimately, the Utopians share was the need, and not what they want. The society in More’s time and even today care so much about themselves, and most of the time, the newspapers and magazines are filled with people doing negative acts. If the world focused more on the positives like how the Utopian are rewarded from good deeds, the reward itself in society today would be gratitude, and could potentially works its way even higher. To come to conclusion, the only way to create mutual happiness in people is through equality. For every man and women to be on the same playing ground, and all things
In the well written Utopian book called Utopia by Thomas More, book one of two focuses on the intricate conversation between the narrator, Thomas More, his good friend Peter Giles, as well as the extremely knowledgeable Raphael Hythloday. The three have a heated conversation about Hythloday’s long journey to the Utopians. Within this conversation, may issues and attempted resolutions are brought up. What particularly stood out, was the issue of private property. This essay will focus on how the conversation of private property brings up issues within human nature and psychology, social and cultural issues, and political and economical issues. The end of this essay will then finish …show more content…
Plato finishes his argument with this statement, “ In such nations, whatever a man can get he calls his own private property; but all the mass of laws enacted day after day don 't enable him to secure his own or to defend it, or even to distinguish it from someone else 's property - as is shown by innumerable and interminable lawsuits, fresh ones everyday ” (37). What Plato means by this, is that “private” property is really not private. The law does not maintain true privacy to the property because anyone can steal within it, damage it, and so on. From this, there are new laws, along with more lawsuits only causing more dilema within the government and no happy …show more content…
Before getting into detail about his opinion with the three men, Plato suggests this “ So I Reflect on the wonderfully wise and sacred institutions of the Utopians, who are so well governed with so few laws. Among them virtue has its reward, yet everything is shared equally, and everyone lives in plenty” (37). Ultimately, the Utopians share was the need, and not what they want. The society in More’s time and even today care so much about themselves, and most of the time, the newspapers and magazines are filled with people doing negative acts. If the world focused more on the positives like how the Utopian are rewarded from good deeds, the reward itself in society today would be gratitude, and could potentially works its way even higher. To come to conclusion, the only way to create mutual happiness in people is through equality. For every man and women to be on the same playing ground, and all things