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How does Sir Thomas More's version of Utopia differ from Plato's? Why is More's vision of Utopia set on an island? Did he never see Gilligan's Island ? That gets old, fast. 

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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature Plato verses more

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last month How does sir thomas more is Vision of

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utopia differ from plato's Plato is imagining his own city

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in a different light he's working with one geographical location

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but maybe projecting about what he could build Sir thomas

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more luckily wass and explorer he lived in an age

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of exploration and so his utopia is a new and

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different place It's actually an island The story is framed

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as thomas more is the narrator He meets a man

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who claims to have traveled to this place utopia and

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then the man tells thomas more the story and tells

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him all the details of this place so what's different

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here is that instead of trying to impress true your

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own territory you're imagining an entirely new world which is

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scary but also exciting The word utopia means no place

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so it already has the idea built into it that

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this is not a place that currently exists and maybe

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it's not a place that will ever exist Why is

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more his version of a utopia set on an island

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So thomas morris utopia has to work to protect itself

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from the outside world from outside invaders And that makes

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a lot of sense if you had a place that

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was so radically different from the rest of the world

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would probably be a threat So it kind of has

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to be an island on its own where it's harder

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to kind of get to it But the island also

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makes it seem kind of likes kooky and improbable and

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isolated like it's it's a very small test case for

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something that might not work on the level of like

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an entire continent right How does sir thomas more is

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Vision of utopia differ from plato's Why is more his 00:02:15.533 --> [endTime] version of a utopia set on an island

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