Презентация "Thomas Morе"

Born 7 February 1478 London

Died 6 July 1535 (aged 57) London, England

• Born on 7 February 1478, Thomas More was the son of Sir John More ,a successful lawyer and later judge, and his wife Agnes.

Scholarly and literary work

• Utopia
• History of King Richard III

"The history of Richard III"

• So far, among the experts there are disputes about whether "History of Richard the third" is Thomas more historical or artwork. In any case, in its main story lines this work coincides with most of the Chronicles and historical research, namely "the New Chronicles of England and France" by R. Fabian, notes D. Mancini, P. Carmelino, P. Virgil, the works of B. andré. The story of the chroniclers and writers disagree with the story, written by Thomas more, only in particulars. In the "History of Richard III" to clearly indicate the nature of the author, in many cases, this assessment took place in 1483 historical events. So, according to the election of Richard III in the king's historian writes that it "... nothing like the Royal game, only they play not on the stage, and for the most part on the gallows".

Utopia

• Of all the literary and political works of Mora, the most important is "Utopia" (published in 1516 by Dirk Martens), and this book retained its significance for our time — not only as a talented novel, but also as brilliant in its conception the work of socialist thought. Literary sources of "Utopia" — the works of Plato ("State", "Critias", "Timaeus"), novels of travel of the XVI century, in particular the "Four voyages" (lat. Quatuor Navigationes) Amerigo Vespucci, and, to some extent, the works of Chaucer, Langland and political ballads. From "Voyages" Vespucci taken the plot of "Utopia" — meeting with Halogeen, his adventure. Moore created the first slim the socialist system, although developed in the spirit of utopian socialism.

Poetic works and translations

• Thomas Moore was the author of 280 Latin epigrams, translated works and small poems. Thomas Moore was actively engaged in translations from the ancient Greek, who in his era was much less popular than Latin.

Political views

- The main cause of all evils and calamities is private property and the resulting conflict of interests between the individual and society, rich and poor, luxury and poverty. Private property and money generate crimes that cannot be stopped by any laws and sanctions.

- Utopia (an ideal country) — original Federation of 54 cities

- Officials in Utopia elective. Every 30 families elect for a year filarga (setgrent); in Chapter 10 filehow is protofile (traybor). Protofile are elected from among scientists. They form the city Senate, headed by the Prince. Prince (ADEM) was elected filariae city from among the candidates proposed by the people. The position of the Prince irremovable, if he is not suspected of aspiration to tyranny. The most important things the city can decide people's Assembly; they elect the most part of officials and hear their reports.