书籍介绍
Revised introduction; new chronology and further reading
Translated with an Introduction by Paul Turner.
AI导读
核心看点
- 批判现实社会不公，讽刺严刑峻法
- 描绘理想国制度，探讨公有制与平等
- 反讽笔法深刻，乌托邦即无地之意
适合谁读
- 政治哲学与西方思想史爱好者
- 对理想社会构想感兴趣的读者
- 文艺复兴时期文学与历史研究者
读前提醒
- 注意作者反讽语调，勿全信乌托邦
- 结合16世纪英国历史背景阅读
- 对比第一卷批判与第二卷构想
读者共识
- 思想极具前瞻性，影响深远
- 理想制度隐含专制与僵化风险
- 经典之作，兼具文学与思想价值
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "The penalty is too harsh in itself, yet it isn't an effective deterrent. Simple theft is not so great a crime that it ought to cost a man his head, yet no punishment however sever can withhold a man from robbery when he has no other way to eat...Severe and terrible punishments are enacted against th"
- "Raphael...is already known as a comfortable, sociable archangel...The first root of "Hythloday" is surely Greek huthlos, meaning "nonsense"; the second part of the name may suggest daien, to distribute, i.e., a nonsense-peddler. A fantastic trilingual pun could make the whole name mean "God heals [H"
- "“No, my lord," he replied, " I would not act more wisely. For Solomon himself, the wisest of man, said, 'Answer a fool according to his folly,' and that's what I'm doing now. I am showing him the pit into which he will fall if he does not take care."
- "...You pervert and ruin a play when you add irrelevant speeches, even if they are better than the play itself. So go through with the drama in hand as best you can, and don't spoil it all simply because you happen to think another one would be better. That's how things go in the commonwealth, and in"
- "This is why Plato in a very fine comparison declares that wise men are right in keeping clear of government matters. They see the people swarming through the streets and getting soaked with rain, and they cannot persuade them to go indoors and get out of the wet. They know if they go out themselves,"
- "...the unbroken rows of houses facing each other across the streets through the whole town make a fine sight.The streets are twenty feet wide... The doors, which are made with two leaves, open easily and swing shut automatically, letting anyone enter who want to - and so there is no private property"
- "The senate has a standing rule never to discuss a matter on the same day when it was first introduced...they do this so that a man will not blurt out the first thought that occurs to him, and then devote all his energies to defending those foolish impulses, instead of considering impartially the pub"
- "...If the population throughout the entire island exceeds the quota, then they enroll citizens out of every city and plant a colony under their own laws on the mainland near them,wherever the natives have plenty of unoccupied and uncultivated land. Those natives who want to live with the Utopian set"
用户评论
周末轻笑话合集
有点可怕……
先读英文后读中文，同步标记一下
BBC Radio 4 2016 【Originally published: 1516】
这个殖民思想也太真实了吧（我这个学期，怎么天天学殖民史，逻辑都要懂完了）：. But if the natives refuse to conform themselves to their laws they drive them out of those bounds which they mark out for themselves, and use force if they resist, for they account it a very just cause of war for a nation to hinder others from possessing a part of that soil of which they make no use
context for british intellectual history 期待这课了……
很早以前大学文学课上读的mark一下~
作者和脑海中Raphael Hythloday的对谈…天啊我真搞不懂这和managing and projecting urban features有什么关系。sophie真的会玩
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