After reading "Utopia"

Just like Tao Yuanming has a paradise, More has a utopia. They do not exist in reality, but exist closely in a beautiful ideal. Human beings The reason for development and progress is that we have a good vision for society and strive for it!

More’s full name is Thomas More. He only lived for 57 years. He was the founder of early European utopian socialist theory, a talented humanist scholar and an experienced politician. He is famous for his famous book "Utopia". "And his name goes down in history.

Moore was born in a legal family in London in 1478. He graduated from Oxford University and served as a lawyer, member of Parliament, deputy finance minister, speaker of the House of Commons, and chief justice. He was executed in 1535 for opposing Henry VIII's appointment as head of the church. In 1886, more than three hundred years after More's death, he was canonized as a saint by Pope Pius XI of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1980, he was honored as a patron martyr of God by John Paul II together with Bishop Fisher. Although he is not an orthodox Catholic. It is very rare that he has won unanimous praise from the left and right. The left has discovered his communist ideals, and the right has discovered his loyalty to Catholicism.

The reason why More achieved such an achievement was that his first teacher, his father, had an important influence. Thomas More was born into a less prominent wealthy family in London, England, on February 7, 1478. Moore lost his mother when he was young and was raised by his father. His father, John More, once served as a judge of the Royal High Court. He was a thrifty, upright and sensible man who had extremely strict requirements on his son, which had a profound impact on More's life.

So, More has a deep understanding of the people at the bottom of society and has a deep sense of sympathy. So it laid the foundation for him to write "Utopia". In the book, More praised the sage system of the island country, but actually criticized Europe, especially the autocratic monarchy system of the Tudor Dynasty in England. More was born in the era of primitive accumulation of capitalism. In his book "Utopia", he criticized the new capitalist relations and described the suffering of the people. He revealed the results of the enclosure movement with great excitement and said: "Your sheep were originally so tame and were satisfied with a little bit. Now it is said that they have become greedy and ferocious, and even want to eat people... The nobles there The gentry, even the bishops and saints... did not allow anyone to farm on the manor, and turned the entire land into pasture. The houses and towns were destroyed, leaving only the church as a sheepfold... The tenant farmers were evicted from the land. , their property was deprived of them through trickery or suppression. Sometimes they were tortured and had to sell their family property. Those unfortunate people tried their best to leave their hometown... until they sold it in their wandering life. When all the money was spent, they could only steal and be punished by hanging, otherwise they would go from house to house begging for food. "Moore's famous saying "Sheep eat people" became a frequently quoted line in folk songs at that time, and his pair of The detailed description of the enclosure movement became vivid material quoted by Marx when describing the barbaric method of capitalist primitive accumulation in Capital. Of course, More at that time could not understand the historical status of capitalism, nor could he point out the real way to realize the ideal system. His utopia was just a utopia.

Yes, the positioning of Utopia is utopian. It had a certain effect on the society at that time, but in essence it was a utopian country.

As for the work itself: The utopian society conceived by More has a political system of democracy and an economic system of universal public ownership with no private property and no internal money circulation;

< p> Utopia implements strict population control policies; in terms of marriage, Utopia implements monogamy and adopts extremely severe punitive measures for premarital sex and extramarital sex.

More’s vision of a utopian society is undoubtedly very meaningful as a criticism of the shortcomings of real society and an inspiration for the development principles of human society, and it still has profound reference for the development of our society today. significance.

As a junior high school student, I don’t have such far-reaching views. I just admire and simply admire all of Moore’s ideas. As I said at the beginning, with ideas, it is like a building with a foundation. It is the basis for building society. Look...many of his ideas have now come true, and mankind has benefited from it.

My admiration does not stop there. He can have these ideas not only because he has unbridled imagination. The key to all this lies in his observation, his care, his attention, and his compassion. , his sympathy, everything about him, created "Utopia", the utopia he built for the bottom class of society, human beings.