Utopia

In utopia, Thomas more gives us a traveler'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, Raphael, describes the island to more, a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society and the Customer-Driven practices of Europe. So how can the philosopher try to reform his society? In his fictional discussion, more takes up a question first raised by Plato and which is still a challenge in the contemporary world. In the history of political thought few works have been more influential than utopia, and few more misunderstood.