Utopia Lesson Plan

Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516. The work was written in Latin and it was published in Louvain (present-day Belgium). Utopia is a work of satire, indirectly criticizing Europe's political corruption and religious hypocrisy. More was a Catholic Humanist. Alongside his close friend, the philosopher and writer Erasmus, More saw Humanism as a way to combine faith and reason. In depicting the nation of Utopia, More steps outside the bounds of orthodox Catholicism, but his ultimate goal is to indicate areas of improvement for Christian society. Is an ideal state possible? Utopia means "no place," but sounds like "good place." At the very least, Utopia exposes the absurdities and evils of...