Thomas More s Utopia And The Problem A Selfish Community

Josh Eldridge Dr. Blair ENGL 1101 Oct. 2, 2015 Thomas More’s Utopia and the Problem a Selfish Community What is an ideal society? As described in Utopia by Sir Thomas More, a utopia is close to ideal because it assumes that the population is not ideal. He describes Utopia as being a place where the laws are built in such a way that makes that makes immoral thinking irrational. Utopia operates in a way that people act in the community’s best interest, rather than their own. In Utopia, More argues that a community that acts in the interest of the community, is much better than a community of individuals who only act in their own best interest. One of the many things that make Utopia an ideal society is how their work habits differ from the world we live in. All citizens in Utopia work on farms along learning a useful skill that they learn at an earlier age through apprenticeship. Children learn trades such as blacksmithing weaving, carpentry, or tailoring. 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