This sort of utopia, of which Plato's Republic is the best known example, requires that the individual must offer much of his freedom for the privilege of living in the heavenly city and pursuing the ...

Here’s what history tells us. While modern stories of Atlantis often depict it as some lost utopian society, the version of Atlantis in Plato’s dialogues was anything but. Plato first told the ...

The term Utopia is derived from Sir Thomas More’s 1516 literary work titled Utopia. The book described an ideal fictional ...

They brought to life a vision of an ideal city, a concept going back to Plato (according to whom a city should consist ... a Florentine architect who designed Sforzinda – a utopian city that was never ...