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A paper which compares Spielvogel's account of the Renaissance period with the society described in More's Utopia, and puts forward the theory that the latter was intended as a blueprint for a possible societal model rather than solely as a critique of More's own culture. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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that society is presented in Mores Utopia and Spielvogels account of the times, not only in terms of the way that the economic and political parameters of the society are
structured but also with regard to the way that people conduct their everyday lives. If one considers that More was offering a blueprint for a potentially more productive and personally
fulfilling social culture in Utopia, it is clear that such changes must start from the attitudes and behaviour of the people who make up that culture. It is, of course,
quite possible to pass and enforce laws which will ensure that people behave in a specific way, but the society is much more likely to flourish and survive if all
the individuals themselves wish to contribute to it, and see themselves as playing a significant role in such survival.
Spielvogel mentions, for example (306 -307) that there is a considerable disparity in the socio-economic position
of the different classes in Renaissance society. There is a strictly hierarchical pyramidal structure in which the nobility possess the greatest share of wealth, resources and socio-political power, and the
peasantry, although far more numerous, have very few material resources and no political power at all: they have no say in the way that society is run, and are unable
to challenge the dictates of those above them in the social scale. More, on the other hand, considers that each person should be allowed the resources which they need, as
opposed to those which they have the power to take, and therefore there is a much fairer distribution of such resources. He has observed that what human beings actually need,
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