The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Ideas in Context)

About this book

At the end of Sir Thomas More's Utopia the character "More" rejects Raphael Hythloday's suggestion that the Utopians have achieved the optimus reipublicae status ("the best state of a commonwealth"): When Raphael had finished his story, I was left thinking that not a few of the laws and customs he had described as existing among the Utopians were really absurd.