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The praise of pleasure : philosophy, education, and communism in More's Utopia

Title
The praise of pleasure : philosophy, education, and communism in More's Utopia / by Edward Surtz, S.J.
Author
Surtz, Edward, 1909-1973
Publication
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1957.
  • ©1957

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Description
vii, 246 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535
  • More, Thomas 1478-1535
  • More, Thomas
  • Utopia (More, Thomas, Saint)
  • Utopie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-229) and index.
Contents
Preface -- Premises for interpretation -- The praise of pleasure -- The defense of pleasure -- Fortunes of Epicurus in Utopia -- Criteria of true and false pleasure -- False pleasures in Europe -- True pleasures in Utopia -- Education and learning in general -- Logic in Utopia -- The criticism of scholasticism -- Intellectual salvation -- The great books in Utopia -- Greek, pleasure, and communism : the link -- Humanism and communism : the background -- Thomas More and communism : the solution -- Unity of conception.
LCCN
57013464
OCLC
  • ocm00266050
  • 266050
  • SCSB-188695
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library