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This 3 page paper examines this well known classic. Did More mean the message to be taken literally? The work is discussed. Quotes are included. No additional sources cited.
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More did in fact create a paradigm unlike any other. He went about creating a perfect world where there was no money and people would be able to sustain themselves
on little. They would barter. Things would purportedly be more even. This was perhaps an early form of communism or socialism. More realized that it would be hard to find
an established model to point to and so he created his own. More explains that "to find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, that is an exceeding rare and
hard thing" (20). More says it is rare, but it may in fact be an impossibility. Still, More presses on to create a paradise of sorts. More was above all
concerned with justice. Unlike some who support capitalism with all its inadequacies, More was most concerned with the idea of fairness. He explains: "For what justice is this, that a
rich goldsmith or an usurer or, to be short, any of them which either do nothing at all, or else that which they do is such that it is not
very necessary to the commonwealth, should have a pleasant and a wealthy living, either by idleness or by unnecessary business, when in the meantime poor labourers...should yet get so hard
and poor a living and live so wretched and miserable a life, that the state and condition of the labouring beasts may seem much better and wealthier? " (More 134).
Of course, not everyone has a problem with the division between rich and poor. Many people contend that it is a fair thing, or that it is impossible to even
things out without destroying what has already been accomplished. They point to failed communist systems and say that capitalism is the only vialbe system of government. They point to the
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