Philosophy

Utopia

by Thomas More

A traveller describes an island where property is shared, gold is used for chamber pots, and everyone works six hours a day. More wrote it in Latin in 1516, and gave us the word, which means “no place”. Whether he meant any of it seriously has been argued about ever since.

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Reading time

About 2 hr 55 min

Where to find it

On the Philosophy shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #2130. In the public domain in the United States.