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1984 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-80
Author(s):  
Thomas I. White
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Christian Thought

The Wilkins Lecture 2000: Medical futures

2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Porter
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
Perfect Health ◽  
Social Investigation ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Complete Health ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
Future Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nature Of Medicine

This paper examines forecasts made by writers, medical and non-medical alike, as to the nature of medicine in a future society. In particular, starting from Plato and Sir Thomas More, it explores what place (if any) has been envisaged for medicine in a future Utopian society. By way of an explanatory device, predictions concerning medicine are compared and contrasted to expectations as to the role of the sciences, natural and social. Investigation of the corpus of social prognostications in fact reveals a dearth of glorious expectations as to the future of medicine as such, although certain writings have held out great hopes for biologistic disciplines, such as eugenics. It is often in ‘golden age’ fantasies about the early history of mankind that the most glowing descriptions of complete health are painted. Similarly, perfect health is something often viewed not in social but in individualistic terms. Explanations are offered of these perhaps slightly surprising facts.

The history of Richard III., attributed to Sir Thomas more

1856 ◽  
Vol s2-I (6) ◽  
pp. 105-107
Author(s):  
James Gairdner
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
History Of

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.

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