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Utopia
>  >   <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(dialogue)]
 * <span style="color: rgb(44, 48, 201);"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects. Every aspect of the civilization is virtually faultless.
 * <span style="color: rgb(44, 48, 201);"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's __ Utopia __ (1516), as a society enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(44, 48, 201);"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plato describes his Utopia in __The Republic__, a fictional philosophical dialogue written in 380 BCE.

<span style="color: rgb(10, 87, 12);">**Sir Thomas More**
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/more.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/more_sir_thomas.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More#Utopia = =
 * <span style="color: rgb(12, 136, 7);">Was an English chancellor to King Henry VIII, and was beheaded after refusing to divorce the king from Queen Catherine.
 * <span style="color: rgb(12, 136, 7);">He was born on February 7, 1478 and was beheaded on July 1, 1535.
 * <span style="color: rgb(12, 136, 7);">He was tried for treason at Westminster and executed on Tower Hill.
 * <span style="color: rgb(12, 136, 7);">He is most famous for his book //Utopia// where he writes about his ideal society. His view of a Utopia involves a communistic democracy.
 * <span style="color: rgb(24, 220, 26);">The Utopia is separated into cities and towns which will be close to identical, with strict limits on how many families per town; People will alternate between living in towns and cities every 2 years.
 * <span style="color: rgb(24, 220, 26);">Philarchs, minor criminal judges, are elected every year by 30 families, and each Archphilarchs look over 10 Philarchs.
 * <span style="color: rgb(24, 220, 26);">Everything is free, and gold has no value.
 * <span style="color: rgb(24, 220, 26);">Marriage has strict age laws, and adultery and premarital intercourse are both outlawed.
 * <span style="color: rgb(24, 220, 26);">The Utopian military is hired so that they suffer no casualties, and money is no object to them so they don't suffer any loss.
 * <span style="color: rgb(24, 220, 26);">The people have religious freedom, but must believe in one divine God and life after death.

<span style="color: rgb(119, 19, 19);">Plato
http://library.thinkquest.org/18775/plato/biop.htm [|http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Plato.html]
 * <span style="color: rgb(174, 4, 4);">An ancient philosopher, mathematician, and writer who helped to lay the foundations of western philosophy.
 * <span style="color: rgb(174, 4, 4);">Lived between 427 B.C.and 347 B.C in Greece
 * <span style="color: rgb(174, 4, 4);">Famous for his founding of the Academy and for naming the 5 polyhedra after the elements of the universe
 * <span style="color: rgb(174, 4, 4);">His most famous work, a fictional dialogue called __The Republic__, describes his vision of an ideal society.
 * <span style="color: rgb(174, 4, 4);">Plato's Utopia in __The Republic__ was organized into a hierarchy of three defined classes, mush like the social order in Brave New World:
 * <span style="color: rgb(211, 3, 3);">He believed that a Utopian society would rely on the perfect balance and cooperation between these groups.
 * <span style="color: rgb(211, 3, 3);">Felt that each group would have to perform the function of their caste for the society to operate sucessfully.
 * <span style="color: rgb(246, 4, 4);"><span style="color: rgb(251, 35, 35);"><span style="color: rgb(238, 23, 23);"><span style="color: rgb(229, 82, 115);">The Guardians-the ruling class of the Utopia. It would be composed of philosopher kings who couldn't marry or own property
 * <span style="color: rgb(246, 4, 4);"><span style="color: rgb(251, 35, 35);"><span style="color: rgb(238, 23, 23);"><span style="color: rgb(229, 82, 115);">The Auxiliaries-the protecting class trained in military skills for the protection of the city state; the warriors.
 * <span style="color: rgb(246, 4, 4);"><span style="color: rgb(251, 35, 35);"><span style="color: rgb(238, 23, 23);"><span style="color: rgb(229, 82, 115);">The Producers-the class that would perform all of the necessary labor in the Utopia; farmers, merchants, etc.

<span style="color: rgb(140, 13, 138);">Plato v. Sir Thomas More
<span style="color: rgb(233, 32, 228);">Sir Thomas More's concept of Utopia included a complete religious toleration. He theorized that men who did not believe in God and the afterlife could not be trusted, this led to his belief that atheism was not acceptable in society. Also in Utopia there existed no such thing as private property. Everything was communally owned, this may have been based on Biblical communalism in //The Acts of the Apostles//.

Plato's Utopia had a defined social hierarchy. More's did as well; he greatly valued harmony and a strict class system. All changes to uniformity and hierarchy were perceived as dangerous. In More's Utopia everything was communal while in Plato's things were owned by individuals. Plato thought that a caste system of higher and lower classes would create social stability, while Mr. More thought that equality amongst the majority of citizens with much more limited higher powers would stabilize his Utopia.

<span style="color: rgb(141, 138, 22);">Brave New World v. Plato & Sir Thomas More
<span style="color: rgb(186, 164, 38);">The philosophies of both Sir Thomas Moore and Plato have striking similarities to the type of government present in Brave New World. For one, Brave New World and both of the philosophers believed that a successful utopia would have to have a strict hierarchy in effect to prosper and be peaceful. In Brave New World, soma was used to keep people happy whenever adversity entered their lives. Neither of the philosopher's works describe anything about the use of drugs to help keep the population happy. More said that atheists could not be trusted, in Brave New World anybody who went against the beliefs of the New World was though of as an outcast or a "savage". Plato thought that a successful Utopia would have to have assigned positions in the world according to their castes. This is the same fundamental belief as the government of Brave New World.

<span style="color: rgb(164, 157, 157);"> <span style="color: rgb(143, 138, 138);"> //"Atra esterní ono thelduin, Mor'ranr lífa unin hjarta onr, Un du evarínya ono varda."// "May good fortune rule over you, Peace live in your heart, And the stars watch over you."