Before Utopia : The Making of Thomas More's Mind /
Before Utopia demonstrates that Thomas More's Utopia (1516) is not, as is widely accepted, a rhetorical play of spirit but is instead built from a particular philosophy. That philosophy was not Platonism, but classical Stoicism. Deeply disturbed in his youth by the conviction that he needed to...
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2020]
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION. In Search of the Meaning of Utopia
- PART I .The Mystery of More's "Either/Or" 1505 Decision: Bodily and Mental Issues before Late 1504
- 1. Religion, Law, and Humanism
- 2. The Lectures on Augustine's City of God (c. 1501)
- 3. The Translations of Pico's Writings (1504)
- 4. The Despairing Letter to Colet (1504)
- 5. January 1505: An Ambivalent Decision?
- PART II. More's Radically New, Both/And, Paradigm: Erasmus' De taedio Iesu and the Enchiridion, 1503
- 1. Thomas More's Transformation: A First Reading of De taedio Iesu and the Enchiridion
- 2. Erasmus' Biography of More
- 3. The Unexplained Explained
- PART III. More's Lucian, 1506 - and Utopia: Teaching Stoic Two-Dimensional Christianity
- 1. Joy and the New Frame of Mind
- 2. A New Analysis of Saints' Lives
- 3. The Role of Cynicus and Menippus
- 4. Modelling Books I-III of De officiis
- 5. A Relationship to Utopia?
- PART IV. Thomas More as Unitarily "Democritus" and "The Man for All Seasons": Erasmus' Preface to The Praise of Folly, 1510
- PART V. A Stoic/Morean Praise of Folly, 1511: The Praise of Folly Works Out More's Stoic- Framed Transformation
- 1. The Rhetoric Is Brilliant but Secondary
- 2. Is Reality Abstract or Worldly? Or Both?
- 3. Truth Is "Truer Than Truth Itself" (The Stoic Unitary Both/And)
- 4. Highest Piety Is Unitarily Two-Dimensional
- 5. Why Is Folly Silent Regarding the Foundation of Her Thinking?
- PART VI. Utopian Philosophy, 1516: Epicureanism within a Stoic Honestum/Utile Frame
- 1. Moral Philosophy
- 2. Stoic Corrections of Epicureans: Religious Absolutes
- 3. Stoic Corrections of Epicureans: Moral Absolutes
- 4. Stoic Utile Expanded
- 5. Stoic Justice Expanded
- 6. Corollaries
- PART VII. Utopian Warfare: A Unitary Two-Dimensional Mindset
- 1. Super Machiavellians?
- 2. "Utter Loathing of War" and Yet a Thoroughly Militarized State
- 3. Righteous Cunning, Stratagem, and Ferocity
- 4. Beyond Machiavelli, a Seamless Mindset: Embryonic Soldiers of Christ
- PART VIII. What Wiseman Hythloday Did Not Understand
- CONCLUSION
- Bibliography
- Index