Bøger af Thomas More

Descargaren EPUB, también disponible para Kindle y en PDFPamphlet virulent dirigé contre la société anglaise d'Henri VIII et construction imaginaire proposant en contrepoint l'image d'une société idéale, L'Utopie, publiée en 1516, est la célèbre contribution de l'humaniste chrétien Thomas More au débat philosophique sur les finalités du politique. Ami d'Érasme, dénonçant avec lui les égarements de l'Église et de l'État, More espère, en dressant le tableau de la cité idéale, rappeler à chacun, gouvernants ou gouvernés, la voie du Bien commun. L'inégalité des richesses et l'intolérance religieuse sont les principales cibles de sa critique.

In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all. As the traveller describes the island, a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society and the practices of Europe. How can the philosopher reform his society? In his discussion, More takes up a question first raised by Plato and which is still a challenge in the contemporary world. In the

Part of the Hero Classics series Utopia is a distant island where the inhabitants are thriving and justice and reason prevail, in contrast to the realities of sixteenth-century Europe, where greed, superstition and unenlightened tradition reign. Using the framework of a traveler's account to a fictional land, Thomas More created an ingenious treatise which envisioned a more humanist approach to laws and social structures, and coined the now common term "utopia". The Hero Classics series: Meditations The Prophet A Room of One's Own Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl The Art of War The Life of Charlotte Bronte The Republic The Prince Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Utopia

" homas More à Pierre Gilles, salut !Ce n¿est pas sans quelque honte, très cher Pierre Gilles, que je vous en- voie ce petit livre sur la république d¿Utopie après vous l¿avoir fait at- tendre près d¿une année, alors que certainement vous comptiez le recevoir dans les six semaines. Vous saviez en effet que, pour le rédiger, j¿étais dispensé de tout effort d¿invention et de composition, n¿ayant qüà répéter ce qüen votre compagnie j¿avais entendu exposer par Raphaël. Je n¿avais pas davantage à soigner la forme, car ce discours ne pouvait avoir été travaillé, ayant été improvisé au dépourvu par un homme qui, au surplus, vous le savez également, connaît le latin moins bien que le grec. Plus ma rédaction se rapprocherait de sa familière simplicité, plus elle se rapprocherait aussi de l¿exactitude, qui doit être et qui est mon seul souci en cette affaire. Toutes les circonstances, je le reconnais, mon cher Pierre, m¿ont donc facilité le travail au point qüil ne m¿en est guère resté. Assurément, s¿il m¿avait fallu inventer ce qui suit ou le mettre en forme, un homme, même intelligent, même instruit, aurait eu besoin de temps et d¿étude. Qüon m¿eût demandé une relation non seulement exacte mais encore élégante, jamais je n¿y aurais suffi, quelque temps, quelque zèle que j¿y eusse mis."

A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation is a work that was written by St. Thomas More while imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1534. Thomas More was imprisoned by King Henry VIII for refusing to swear to the Act of Succession (1534). He had been given writing materials in the early months of his imprisonment. The Dialogue is set in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1528, between the invasions of Suleiman the Magnificent. It is a fictional dialogue between Vincent and his uncle, Anthony. The book begins with Vincent paying a visit to his uncle. He is terrified by the invasions of the Ottomans and seeks comfort from Anthony. Anthony tells him that comfort can only come from God. The Dialogue is a reflection on worldly power, the transience of pleasure, and the redemptive power of Jesus Christ. While it is a spiritual reflection, the treatment of themes of worldly power by a major political figure and humanist also characterizes it as a work of political thought. Immediately after More's death, the Dialogue of Comfort circulated in manuscript form. The most important surviving manuscripts are the Corpus Christi Manuscript, Bodleian Library, Ms. C.C.C. D.37; and British Library, Ms. Royal 17 D.XIV. It was first published, in quarto, in London by Richard Tottel in 1553. In modern editions, the spelling and punctuation of the original are corrected and standardized. (wikiperdia.org)

In The Four Last Things, More prescribes frequent meditation on Death, Judgment, Pain and Joy in order to combat the spiritual diseases of pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth.The Supplication of Souls is More's vigorous, humorous, and artful defense of one of the flashpoints of the Reformation: the Catholic dogma of Purgatory. It is his devastating response to a defamatory political tract that claimed that the greed and corruption of English clergymen stemmed from their insistence on being paid to pray for the dead.

A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its members. It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the New World. However, it may also denote an intentional community. In common parlance, the word or its adjectival form may be used synonymously with "impossible", "far-fetched" or "deluded". Hypothetical utopias focus on-amongst other things-equality, in such categories as economics, government and justice, with the method and structure of proposed implementation varying based on ideology. Lyman Tower Sargent argues that the nature of a utopia is inherently contradictory because societies are not homogeneous and have desires which conflict and therefore cannot simultaneously be satisfied.