The Common Corps of Christendom: Ecclesiological Themes in the Writings of Sir Thomas More

1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Gogan
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
The Common

scholarly journals Comparative Study on Sir Thomas More & Hakim Abolqasem Ferdowsi, in Subject & Utopia

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Hamid Reza Kasikhan
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Analytic Method ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Ideal Society ◽  
Job Classification ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Ideal

The present study compares two poets and scholars (English and Persian) in terms of subject and utopia. Sir Thomas More’s Merry Jest is compared with one piece of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh in terms of the common subject or message they convey in classification of people’s occupations. Having a civilized and more disciplined society, both poets believed in classifying people based on their skills, competence and efficiencies; and insisted that each group should remain in their own category and avoid interfering or entering the profession of which they know nothing. Moreover, as social scholars, both put forward the theory of utopia and describe the ideal society in which people can live more comfortably and pleasantly. Living in the 16th century, the principles proposed by More for his utopia basically turn round modern social interactions and attempts to recognize the reason of problems at the first step, and then amending them through the laws he suggests. In Ferdowsi’s utopia, however, the ideal society is based on two distinct factors: physical structure of towns, the number of necessary architectural buildings constructed, and the moral enhancement of its residents in holding high human values as honesty, integrity and knowledge. The present research aims to probe, examine and find answers for two main questions: what affinities and dichotomies are there in “job classification” and the concept of “utopia” held by Ferdowsi & More? The research method is library-based and the obtained results are categorized by descriptive-analytic method.

Giving It All Away? Thomas Reid’s Retreat from a Natural Rights Justification of Private Property

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-389
Author(s):  
K.A.B. Mackinnon
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Natural Rights ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Thomas Reid ◽  
Natural Right ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Right

[P]roperty must exist wherever men exist, and…the right to such property is the necessary consequence of the natural right of men to life and liberty.Thomas Reid 1788I proceed therefore to consider in what State or Order of Society there is the least temptation to ill conduct, and I confess that to me the Utopian System of Sir Thomas More seems to have the advantage of all others in this respect. In that System, it is well known there is no private Property. All that which we call Property is under the Administration of the State for the common benefit of the whole political Family.Thomas Reid 1794The few remarks on property that are found in the Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind of the eighteenth century Scottish “Common Sense” philosopher, Thomas Reid, have led at least one commentator to treat him as a fairly traditional advocate of the natural right to (private) property, albeit one with a concern for the very poor. In an article on William Paley and the rights of the poor, Thomas Home remarks in passing that Reid’s (and Adam Ferguson's)major concern was to justify natural rights to property and that their interest in the poor was so little that a reader who accidentally skipped a paragraph or a page would miss all they had to say on the topic.

The Use of St. John Chrysostom in Sixteenth-Century Controversy: Christopher St. German and Sir Thomas More in 1533

1961 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Schoeck
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Canon Law ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
Apparent Source ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
The Common ◽  
Technical Question

In the important controversy between Sir Thomas More and Christopher St. German during the year 1533 — a controversy whose importance reaches into theological domains and involves also the vexatious conflict between the common law and the Roman canon law in England — we find a citation of St. John Chrysostom used first by St. German and then accepted and repeated by More. The apparent source is Chrysostom's famous commentary on St. Matthew, and this work (translated by Burgundio of Pisa in the later twelfth century) is, as Miss Smalley reminds us, the book “which St. Thomas Aquinas preferred to the whole town of Paris….” Further involved, of course, is the larger problem of the influence of St. John Chrysostom before and during the sixteenth century, as well as the technical question of methods of using commentaries on Scripture and thus the weight of auctoritas among the early Tudor controversialists. While it is only the modest story of one maxim that I wish to call attention to in this brief paper, I think that we shall in addition learn something of the English fortunes of one of the most widely used medieval compendia of commentaries, the Catena Aurea of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Sir Thomas More, Martyr

Moreana ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 1 (Number 3) (3) ◽  
pp. 37-38
Author(s):  
Mary P. Schoene
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
Sir Thomas More

Freiheit in der Welt : Sir Thomas More, par Hans Küng, Benziger, Zürich, 1964, 48 pp

Moreana ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 2 (Number 6) (2) ◽  
pp. 95-97
Author(s):  
Germain Marc’hadour
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
Hans Küng ◽  
Sir Thomas More
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