Utopian Society
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A Utopian Society is a community with extremely desirable society qualities.
- AKA: Utopia.
- Context:
- It can be predicted by a Utopian (who believes in a utopian prediction).
- Example(s):
- a Techno-Utopian Society.
- the one depicted in (More, 1516).
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Dystopia.
- See: Sir Thomas More, Utopia (Book), Utopian Fiction.
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/utopia Retrieved:2017-9-13.
- A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens.[1] [2] The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia. One could also say that utopia is a perfect "place" that has been designed so there are no problems.
Utopian ideals often place emphasis on egalitarian principles of equality in economics, government and justice, though by no means exclusively, with the method and structure of proposed implementation varying based on ideology. According to Lyman Tower Sargent "there are socialist, capitalist, monarchical, democratic, anarchist, ecological, feminist, patriarchal, egalitarian, hierarchical, racist, left-wing, right-wing, reformist, free love, nuclear family, extended family, gay, lesbian, and many more utopias".
The term has been used to describe intentional communities.
- A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens.[1] [2] The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia. One could also say that utopia is a perfect "place" that has been designed so there are no problems.
1891
- (Wilde, 1891c) ⇒ Oscar Wilde. (1891). “The Soul of Man Under Socialism.” In: The Fortnightly Review.
- QUOTE: "... A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias. ...”
1516
- (More, 1516) ⇒ Thomas More. (1516). “Utopia.”
- ↑ Giroux, H., 2003. Utopian thinking under the sign of neoliberalism: Towards a critical pedagogy of educated hope. Democracy & Nature, 9(1), pp.91-105.
- ↑ Simandan, D., 2011. Kinds of environments — a framework for reflecting on the possible contours of a better world. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, 55(3), pp.383-386. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2010.00334.x/full