Matthew Mehan | More’s Utopia: An Argument for Socialism?
The idea of socialism is ancient. Organized socialist movements took form in Europe in the nineteenth century, and socialism emerged as a dominant political ideology in many places around the world by the twentieth century. This second CCA of the 2019-2020 academic year, co-sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series, will consider socialism, its practice over time, and its resurgence today.
Matthew Mehan is director of academic programs and the Worsham Teaching Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center in Washington, D.C. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Dallas, where he wrote a dissertation on Shakespeare’s vision for leadership education in his collaborative play, Sir Thomas More. Dr. Mehan has been a Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute and is a fellow of the Center for Thomas More Studies and a reader at the Folger Library. He has served as a speech writer and communications consultant for civic leaders around the country. He is the author of Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals, an illustrated book of poems.
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I am pretty sure that More predated Marx and Communism. But Socialism???
Everybody knows that Jesus was a lasseis faire capitalist! Ask Ayn Rand! Who is John Galt? Jesus loved the rich. Prosperity Gospel! Everybody else misunderstands except me! What does Utopia have in common with the Garden Of Eden? Christian who are Socialist are heretics guided by Satan! 😇🤗😉😎
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Why are the comments off? Wouldn’t want any kind of open discussion about your propaganda now would we?
Seriously what problem could possibly arise from having comments on? There’s no reason there’s no justification.
It’s sad
Now I must go find the audio book.
I have to listen and check on this educator when I heard St. Tomas More’s name. The title being “an argument for socialism,” it sounds really interesting. Yes, St. Tomas More is a Catholics spiritual hero.
Pro. Mehan’s talk is fun to listen. He makes up More pretty well with his humor. We just have to live joyfully. What’s better than that?
Thank you Hillsdale for feeding us great deals of good informations.
I read Utopia in freshman Humanities 110 (a core requirement) at Reed College in 1979. IMHO, he might be considered to be the inventor of "trolling"? 🙂
Well done
More's Utopia is so often misinterpreted. It's really simple…look at the life and beliefs of the actual man to give you a hint. A catholic martyr, conservative, student of Augustine and Cicero, etc. If that wasnt enough he gives hints in the text itself by many ways.