What are your views on humans and humanity? Thomas More is the author of the story called “Utopia”. The main characters are More, Peter Giles, Raphael Hythloday, Cardinal John Morton, Lawyer, and General Utopus. There are two books in the story of “Utopia”. In the first book, More takes a business trip to Antwerp were his visits to Peter Giles an old friend. Peter takes More to meet Raphael Hythloday. Hythloday is considered a great traveler. That has a ton of controversial opinions. More, Peter and Hythloday head over to the Gile’s garden so they can have a chat.
About how if it’s possible for philosophy to influence politics. Hythloday randomly talks about a place called Utopia. In the second book More, Peter and Hythloday chat about Utopia. Hythloday talks and describes the different characteristics of Utopia: the government, travel, etc. When Hythloday finishes his story about the island and how he thinks is beautiful. Where’s Gile’s and More don’t seem very convinced at all. More speaks up and says that he has a ton of questions that were left unanswered, but the questions can wait when Hythloday takes a breather.
In this paragraph, I will be discussing how More feels that there shouldn’t be a death penalty for theft. If put into bad spots it would ultimately lead to terrible situations. More is arguing with Hythloday, the cardinal, and Peter about unjust it is for killing someone for theft. More is saying it. More is arguing that having the death penalty for theft might ultimately be killing off good people. “When that little money is gone (and it’s soon spent wandering from place to place), what remains for them but to steal, and so be hanged- justly, you’d say! -or to wander and beg” (Utopia, Book One).
My analysis of this quote is that some people are forced into doing horrible thing’s when putting into terrible situations. This proves my thesis because More believes that humans are good on the inside. And if forced into bad situations they will make bad choices. Just like in the quote. The sheep were taking over all the land and, people were losing their house. So, they were put into a bad situation where it was to steal or just wonder place to place. More believes that all humans are good on the inside. And that no one deserves the death penalty for theft. When put into bad situations will ultimately lead to horrible decisions
In this paragraph, I will be explaining how if we don’t fix and or cure the world of evil. Then it will ultimately lead to our downfall in humanity. Before lunch More, Hythloday, the cardinal, and Peter were having a conversation before lunch. More was in a heated with everyone on how things were runed in the new world. More is the one saying it to Hythloday and Peter. More is auguring that poverty and scarcity live side by side with luxury. How people are getting greedy to where they are running out of money. When they run out of money it leads to bad habits lift stealing.
How since the sheep have taken over people in poverty have been made into thieves. “If you do not find a cure for these evils, it is futile to boast of your justice in punishing theft. Your policy may look superficially like justice, but in reality, it is neither just nor practical. If you allow young folk to be abominably bought up and their character corrupted, little by little, from childhood; and if then you punish as grownups for committing crimes to which their early training has inclined them, what else is this, I ask, but first making them thieves and then punishing them for it?” (Utopia, Book One). The analysis of the quote is that if we don’t fix or find a cure for this evil and by punishing theft by death.
Won’t and will not fix human at all. And how if we allow our children to grow up with their characters corrupted, then they will be punished for it when they grow up. This proves my thesis because More believes that all humans are good on the inside. How it’s our downfall if we have the death penalty for theft. In the end, More believes that everyone is good on the inside. When brought up and their character are corrupted they will be tried as an adult for committing crimes that they were trained for.
In conclusion, More believes that every human is good on the inside. That when put into horrible situations or grown up with horrible situations that will lead to making bad decisions