Presents Thomas More's vision of Utopia, an island supporting a perfectly organized and happy people ... This third edition includes scholarship since 2002, when the previous edition was published.
Presents nine of Henry David Thoreau's political texts, including "Civil Disobedience," selections from "Walden," and several works on slavery, and also includes a contextual introduction and a Thoreau chronology.
Utopia is one of the most influential books in the western philosophical and literary tradition, and one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism. A fictional island's society embraces religious tolerance, state ownership of the land, and care for the elderly.
Author's work of political philosophy addressing the idea that obedience to authority especially in the form of a large bureaucracy such as the poltical state is really just a natural response of human nature.
