A Utopia de Tomás More é uma utopia?

Abstract

The «utopie» can be considered as a category of the imaginary, a source of literary fictions, as a form of criticising the social and political order or as a rationally projected refuge where a denouncement of actual diseases is cristallized, and the idealization of a society placed outside the time and space is described. Taking as a starting point the consideration of utopie as «an exercise on the lateral possibilities», reading Thomas More can suggest a multiplicity of perspectives that cross themselves building a tissue very rich and quite amazing. «The Utopie» of Th. More, however, is not an utopie in the modern sense of the word, but the expression of a thought that synthétisé the justice and perfection exigence with the free and contingent character of all human action.