Hello and welcome to Symposium 57. Today I'm very glad to be joined by Bo, and we're going to talk about one of the most prominent figures of English intellectual history.

We're going to talk about Thomas More. Some people call him St. Thomas More. We'll discuss this question in a bit.

And we're going to talk mainly about his book Utopia, which is a book that is really open to interpretation and has puzzled interpreters

throughout the ages and the main question is was he a proto-communist or not because

he does seem to have some criticisms of private property in the book.

But we'll see and we'll find out.

I'm sure that we'll get a lot of people saying that we misread it,

but this is one of the issues with texts that are highly controversial.

So please bear with us and if you think we're incredibly mistaken, give us a comment and tell us why.

So I think the dialogue is really important.

So Thomas Moore was born in 1478 and he died in 1535. I think he lost his head. Yeah? Yeah, yeah. He's

executed by Henry. Yes and his most significant book is considered to be Utopia.

And he's also a very prominent figure of the Northern Renaissance Movement.

I think he talked to, he was discussing with Erasmus and he was known.

And he was very famous in his own lifetime. I've heard different history and say that

arguably Erasmus was one of the most famous men in Europe and one of the most famous

thinkers certainly and Thomas More sort of up there with him, and yet they had a fairly famous correspondence.

Erasmus is sort of thought of as one of the earliest, one of the early humanists.

Yes.

Thomas Moore.

Yeah, it's just was extremely famously in his own lifetime, absolutely.

Yeah.

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