Utopia essay

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In this paper you‘ll respond to the notion of utopia. First, write a good paragraph that summarizes Plato’s Republic, the original utopia. Then research two other utopias, to provide a paragraph apiece on their main aspects. Choose from any of these:

Thomas More, Utopia; William Morris, News From Nowhere; Samuel Butler, Erewhon; Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward; H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia; B.F. Skinner, Walden II; Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia.

Finally, describe what you would consider a perfect society. What problems would need to be solved, and how? You need to consider social, economic, educational, environmental, and any other areas that would be important and necessary. Obviously everyone has different ideas about what’s important and/or problematic, so there’s no absolute right or wrong. Nonetheless , take the categories seriously and develop your own ideal society!

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Plato’s Republic is a dialog between Plato and Socrates. Socrates had accepted the dialog after
refusing to allow several other dialogs of Plato (Orr, J. 2017). The dialog in Plato’s Republic is
about the question of how justice relates to happiness. The question of what the meaning of justice
means makes Socrates address justice regarding both the political community as well as the person.
Socrates tries to figure out if the person offered truth is happier or whether the unjust person is
unhappy. The central theme of Plato’s Republic, Original Utopia is considered in the two questions
which are the meaning of justice and the meaning of happiness and how they relate. Socrates tries
to explain that both truth and happiness are ethical and they end up constructing a just speech to
help bring justice to human life as they try to compare different justice rivals of theories of justice
(Spariosu, M. I. 2015).
Thomas Butler, Erewhon is a satirical tale. The tale was first considered as a Utopia, but later it
became an antiutopian and is more of provoking. The ironic explains two terms; that is religion
and evolution. Erewhon mocks the injustice of Victoria England and comparing it to a society
which is not a utopia. It uses examples of doing the opposite of what should get done. He speaks
about the sick people get treated as criminals and the criminals treated which the opposite of what
society requires. Erewhon mocks all these and considers them as unjust. Thomas More wrote of a
Utopia. More wrote a fabulous book which thinks of an imaginary world where the people share
common culture as well as a perfect way of life (Lakowski, R. I. 2016). He imagines a society
which is good for the inhabitants and a community where wrong deeds get addressed in a civilized
manner.
Utopia is an imagined place or a society where people live together. It could also mean an imagined
place which is perfect for human inhabitation. The Utopias elaborate the culture as one which is,

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where there is happiness, and justice is related to the political community and the individual’s soul.
A perfect society is an ideal society, and there are several other ways in which we could describe
an ideal society by asking the question of how ...


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