Utopia Society and Class Quotes Page 3
(Book.Page) based on the 1989 Cambridge University Press edition
| Quote #7 The Utopians keep as slaves only prisoners taken in wars fought by the Utopians themselves. (2.80) |
Slaves? In an equal society? Don't ask us, we're confused too. Notice how Hythloday has presented it using positive language: "they only have these kinds of slaves..." Does he have good reasoning for this aspect of the system?
| Quote #8 [The Utopians] do allow divorce for adultery or for intolerably offensive behavior (2.82) |
Do you think divorce and social equality have any connection? Hythloday seems to think so.
| Quote #9 What kind of justice is it when a nobleman, a goldsmith, a moneylender, or someone else who makes his living by doing either nothing at all or something completely useless to the commonwealth gets to live a life of luxury and grandeur, while in the meantime a laborer, carter, or a farmer works so hard and so constantly that even beasts of burden would scarcely endure it? (2.107-108) |
Just another example of how Hythloday likes to gauge social problems using comparisons to animals (remember the man-eating, mutant sheep?).
