Motif
ideal commonwealth based on shared goods
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A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Civic Order and the Body Politic. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 8241-8314 confidence: high
More’s Utopia is described as bringing Plato’s light to bear on England’s misery, corruption, poverty, war, and decay, and as placing an ideal state beside those conditions.
The passage repeatedly emphasizes communal property, equality, and an ideal state constructed with Plato’s help.
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