Platos The
Republic and Thomas Mores Utopia are both influential texts
duringearly socialist period which explore philosophsical and moral
discussions of justice, injustice and freedom in an intension to
gain an deep insight into the ideal society. As a matter of common
knowledge that Thomas More's
Utopiais
patterned after Plato's
Republic.(Thomas, 1982). Therefore, More was mostly influnenced
by Platos values and ideas demonstrated in The Republic and
borrowed these to write his idealistic society- Utopia, as a
roughly framework. Meanwhile, Mores Utopia as well as exhibits
his own aspects which undermine the construction of Platos ideal
commonwealth due to comparing different values and ideas of authors
and the contexts surrounded
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It is equally
evident that More, however, did not merely borrow the aspect of the
Republic. There are intrinsic differences between the two works. It
is no accident then, indeed, it is a perfectly sensible procedure
that the readers on the Utopia should attempt to obtain an insight
into More's meaning by comparing and contrasting his ideas with
that of Plato. Mores ideal society concentrated on the main spirit
of equality and justice whereas Platos desired Republic revolved
around the formation of perfect society, philosopher-king
leadership to govern the society. Despite Mores Utopia was being
written approximately a millennium apart from Platos The
Republic, More simultaneously undermined many aspects of Platos
Republic whist retaining fundamental similarities. These borrowed
forms concluded a discipined social system with superior rulers,
communal shared facilities and a specialised social organization
through rigid traning program, meanwhile, based on interdependence
and mutual accommodation for all goods. Moreover, the differences
include the community based on kinship in The Republic and
underlined the familism society in Utopia and three tiered social
structure of Platos contrasted by a relative equilibrium class
system in Mores writing. The existence of these two books are both
inconstestable guide lead us toward a higher level of morality and
ultimately achieve the perfect
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