UTOPIA
A small, true book, no less useful than pleasant
Anyone seeking public office shall be disqualified from any public office forthwith.
The best-selling series "Selected» of Acid Publications is enriched with seven new titles, seven new small books, big thoughts, which come to be added to the previous 16 titles.
The famous myth of Utopia, written by Thomas More at the beginning of the 16th century and which has not ceased to fascinate and arouse interest ever since, deals with the eternal philosophical question of the ideal state. More incorporates elements from Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism and subsidiarity into his vision of the ideal society, and speaks of the abolition of private property, secularism, state welfare and care for all citizens, with the aim of achieving happiness through of achieving social peace and justice. A text that had little influence on the philosophical, political and literary tradition of the West, a brilliant birth of Renaissance humanism.
About the author:
Thomas More (1478–1535), Sir in England and Saint of the Catholic Church, was a deeply cultivated humanist, jurist, politician and philosopher, but also an ardent Catholic bordering on asceticism. This dual identity of his with all its tensions is reflected in Utopia, a work that is considered by many to be the forerunners of communism. He served as an adviser at the court of Henry VIII, but passionately opposed both the Reformation and the Church of England's separation from Rome, resulting in his being convicted of treason and executed by beheading.
Also featured in the series are:
- The Opening – Sigmund Freud
- The Prophet – Khalil Gibran
- Literary Eutrapelas – Stephen Leacock
- The Bible of the Chosen – Robert Athlyi Rogers
- Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu
- Responses from the Trenches of the 20thu Century – George Orwell
- Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau
- Walking – Henry David Thoreau
- The Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Man – Jerome K. Jerome
- If – Rudyard Kipling
- The Book of Tea – Kakuzo Okakura
- The Book of Five Circles – Miyamoto Musashi
- The Art of War – Sun Tzu
- The Ruler – Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Art of Always Being Right - Arthur Schopenhauer
- The Recognition of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft
