1478-1535: More

Sir Thomas More

More is remembered for refusing to sign the Act of Supremacy and therefore accused of committing high treason to King Henry the VIII and was executed, I admire his courage to remain steadfast in what he believed to be true but find his ideas on Utopia to be very strange and incoherent; the place sounds so boring. However I appreciate that these ideas were routed in trying to create peace within society; 'What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can' Utopia, Bk. 1. (1516).

Bibliography

Luminarian (online) (last accessed 4 November 2009) Available at:
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/tmore.htm