Item Detail
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6719
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English
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Brigham Young's Ideal Society : The Kingdom of God
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BYU Studies
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Autumn 1962
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5
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3-18
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"Sir Thomas More published his Utopia in 1516. It is one of a series of imaginative portrayals, beginning with Plato's Republic, suggesting the desirability of, and man's hope for, an ideal society. More did not intend his Utopia to exist in the real world as a republic; he meant simply to present a satire on the perversities of government and society. Now the term utopia describes a vast literature searching for a society in which "justice" might become a reality in the interactions of man. Cicero and Rousseau idealized the state of nature; Medieval Christians, beginning with St. Augustine, anticipated a divine Utopia in the future variously called the City of God, the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven; Marx, though critical of the Utopian Socialists, concocted an atheistic Utopia in his "scientific" socialism. Regardless of the approach, the goal of these schemes had similar idealistic features. . . ." [Publisher's abstract]
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