Abstract

The question posed by the author is: was Thomas More a utopian or a Realpolitiker? Both these ascriptions are defined with reference to More’s Utopia. Professor Sawada tries to reconstruct historically the intention of More the author of Utopia in contrast to the persona More and its interlocutor Raphaël, and concludes that More was a realist ‘man of law’ living in transcendent hope: a Christian gentleman with spes in caelis et pes in terries.

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