Utopia - A Blueprint of Paradise
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In Moor’s vision of Utopia there is no private ownership on Utopia, with goods being stored in warehouses and people requesting what they need. Slavery is a feature of Utopian life and it is reported that every household has two slaves. The slaves are either from other countries or are the Utopian criminals. Other significant innovations of Utopia include: a welfare state with free hospitals, euthanasia permissible by the state, divorce permitted and there are no lawyers, the law is made deliberately simple, as all should understand it and not leave people in any doubt of what is right and wrong.
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Author: Sir Thomas Moore
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Modern Utopia
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Wells's point is that his Utopia is populated with individuals and not all of these individuals are good, wise, and virtuous. Wells felt that there should be some restrictions on marriage, but that women should be paid for rearing children. Also, there is the penultimate chapter, which deals with race or, racism. There are some other areas of controversy or interest connected with the modern Utopia. Capital punishment has been abolished, but euthenasia for babies with certain birth defects exists. Criminals and misfits may be eventually banished to selected islands Utopians have abandoned the gold standard in favor of units of energy. We have gradually moved off the gold standard, though we have not adopted units of energy, yet
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Author: H. G. Wells
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a written work by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "death of God", and the "prophecy" of the Overman, which were first introduced in The Gay Science. Described by Nietzsche himself as "the deepest ever written", the book is a dense and esoteric treatise on philosophy and morality, featuring as protagonist a fictionalized Zarathustra. A central irony of the text is that the style of the Bible is used by Nietzsche to present ideas of his which fundamentally oppose Judaeo-Christian morality and tradition.
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Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Age of Reason
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Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalized religion and challenges the inerrancy of the Bible. The Age of Reason presents common deistic arguments; for example, it highlights the corruption of the Christian Church and criticizes its efforts to acquire political power. Paine advocates reason in the place of revelation, leading him to reject miracles and to view the Bible as an ordinary piece of literature rather than as a divinely inspired text. The Age of Reason is not atheistic, but deistic: it promotes natural religion and argues for a creator-God.
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Author: Thomas Paine
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The Republic
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A Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and Plato's best known work. In Plato's fictional dialogues the characters of Socrates as well as various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether the just man is happier than the unjust man by imagining a society ruled by philosopher-kings and the guardians. The dialogue also discusses the role of the philosopher, Plato's Theory of Forms, the place of poetry, and the immortality of the soul.
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Author: Plato
Translation: James Adam
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Utilitarianism
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John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is a philosophical defense of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. It went through four editions during Mill's lifetime with minor additions and revisions. Although Mill includes discussions of utilitarian ethical principles in other works such as On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, Utilitarianism contains Mill's only major discussion of the fundamental grounds for utilitarian ethical theory.
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Author: John Stuart Mill
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The Discourse on the Method
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A philosophical and mathematical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. It is best known as the source of the famous quotation "I think, therefore I am". The Discourse on the Method is one of the most influential works in the history of modern science. It is a method which gives a solid platform from which all modern natural sciences could evolve. In this work, Descartes tackles the problem of skepticism which had been revived from the ancients.. Descartes modified it to account for a truth that he found to be incontrovertible. Descartes started his line of reasoning by doubting everything, so as to assess the world from a fresh perspective.
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Author: René Descartes
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The Symposium
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The philosophical dialogue written by Plato sometime after 385 BC, is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a group of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposium or a wine drinking gathering at the house of the tragedian Agathon at Athens.
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Author: Plato
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Plato Theaetetus
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Author: Plato
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Political Ideals
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Five essays: Political Ideals; Capitalism and the Wage System; Pitfalls in Socialism; Individual Liberty and Public Control; National Independence and Internationalism.
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Author: Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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Eugenics and Other Evils
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"I publish these essays at the present time for a particular reason connected with the present situation; a reason which I should like briefly to emphasise and make clear.
Though most of the conclusions, especially towards the end, are conceived with reference to recent events, the actual bulk of preliminary notes about the science of Eugenics were written before the war.[...]"
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Author: G. K. Chesterton
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The New Atlantis and Advancement in Learning
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Author: Sir Francis Bacon
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