Before Utopia : : The Making of Thomas More’s Mind /

Before Utopia : : The Making of Thomas More’s Mind / / Ross Dealy.

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 is not Platonism, but classical Stoicism. Deeply disturbed in his youth by the conviction that he needed to decide...

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Dealy, Ross,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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