02429nam 2200589Ia 450 991015162810332120200520144314.01-282-23342-497866138111650-88920-595-7(CKB)1000000000713590(EBL)685914(OCoLC)144145167(SSID)ssj0000282308(PQKBManifestationID)11273187(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282308(PQKBWorkID)10316807(PQKB)10130164(MiAaPQ)EBC685914(CaPaEBR)402364(CaBNvSL)rjv00101409(MiAaPQ)EBC3246327(MdBmJHUP)muse14769(Au-PeEL)EBL685914(CaPaEBR)ebr10147286(EXLCZ)99100000000071359019900727d1990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe new republic[electronic resource] a commentary on book I of More's Utopia showing its relation to Plato's Republic /Colin StarnesWaterloo, Ont., Canada Wilfrid Laurier University Pressc19901 online resource (137 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-88920-978-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-118) and index.Contents; Author's Note; Preface; Introduction; Commentary on Book I of More's Utopia; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; IndexColin Starnes radical interpretation of the long-recognized affinity of Thomas More's Utopia and Plato's Republic confirms the intrinsic links between the two works. Through commentary on More's own introduction to Book I, the author shows the Republic is everywhere present as the model of the ""best commonwealth,"" which More must first discredit as the root cause of the dreadful evils in the collapsing political situation of sixteenth-century Europe. Starnes demonstrates how More, once having shorn the Republic of what was applicable to a society that had forUtopiasElectronic books.Utopias.321/.07Starnes Colin1029495MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910151628103321The new republic2472160UNINA