Review Of The Utopia Book Of Tomas Moro

Review of the Utopia Book of Tomas Moro

The book Utopia has been written just over five hundred years for English Tomas Moro, in 1516. Tomas Moro is a writer, theologian and humanist;Lawyer and law professor, whose most famous work was Utopia, which we will describe it briefly:

From this essay, the term utopia that feels the basis of the concept of socialism in history is born, it is a highly political text, where it describes the life of the Republic of Utopia, which would become an island. The Company of the Republic created by Tomas Moro shows us a society where gold would become a toilet, where money does not exist but other forms of exchange;On the island there is no private property on land and the State is responsible for regulating everything. First he tells the trips of the explorer Américo Vespucio, time of spoils called discoveries, and of invasions of distant lands of Europe, and some conversations among several authors.

In the first part, it already tells us about the punishments of criminal acts, of the ways in which they believe they should be applied because it says that man is over the material, then the punishments must be thought but against the penaltyof death. Among several other dialogues, among the conversations also talk about possession and personal desires, which today we would call consumerism, promoted by the media to maintain capital and therefore the modes of production. On page 11 it says: -And what do you tell me about the luxury so shameless with which this sad misery is wrapped, the servants of the nobles, the artisans and even the peasants themselves are delivered to an ostentatious luxury both in eating and in dressing.

To talk about the brothels, dating houses and lutapanares and those other lupas? You know that they end up quickly with money and leave their adherence in misery or on the way to theft. That, to be written 500 years ago, because that does consumerism, unable to obtain what you need to force yourself to work more and more until your purchasing power is alleviating your expectations and not being able to obtain what you want to consume,Be this material thing, one crime, that did the consumer society. At that time and as expressed above, those acts had punishment even death sentences.

Tomas Moro does not describe Utopia as something unattainable and distant, but as a proposal, an alternative to the dominant system of the time, where private property on earth and on possessions, between a few or only one, is worth more than lifehuman, as we continue to see it 500 years later. An example of an alternative that we could make relevance islandowners mostly of Brazilian nationality. To talk about family agriculture is also to speak of the human right to adequate food (DHAA), which is settled in international and national laws in which all territories are obliged to fulfill them, but are not fulfilled, thus being the State itself thatprotects the business sector for being part of that sector, which in turn manages local policy.

Although, Tomás Moro is part, as mentioned, of the first utopian socialist, it is worth highlighting the importance of the essay in the political, social and human sciences. Its reading, also attending to the historical context, it would be necessary to take it into account even until reaching Marx, until today, which already tells us about much more complex proposals, as an alternative to capitalist modes, sitting as a principle the abolition of propertyprivate, as Tomás Moro placed, as an example. On the other hand, this work also left in the dystopian literary genres, there we can mention Huxley, Bradbury and George Orwel.

On page 45, of the book Utopia, and almost the whole second part of the book, talks about happiness, and even God – according to the religion of the utopiamen – rewards for that. He places "working for the public good is a religious duty, to throw the happiness of the other to achieve your own, it is injustice …". Going back to page 43 continues: "Happiness is not in all kinds of pleasures, it is only in good and honest pleasure … as a supreme either …" Then we talk again that material possessions do not provide happiness, which existother things to get to it. It is even worth noting that on the island everyone also wore the same. Describing ourselves on the same message. All work in their entirety in agriculture, until some time or the time one wants, in addition to other works such as carpentry. The women in their part were dedicated to the kitchen, attending the elders, and by their husband, equal to equal conditions in terms of gender on the island.