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More and Plato Thomas More’s Utopia and Plato’s Republic are classic examples of the struggle for the perfect society. The similarities of the two books do not limit them to mere dialogue. Both contain a description of the perfect state, although they do this for different reasons and they arrive at different types of perfection. With the idea of a better or happier place one would suspect that they struggled in the life …

…the currents of thought, picking out only those that were edible to him in his position and time. Whether it be his expansion of Plato’s educational system or his development of a strict sexual moral code, More developed a new blueprint for the ideal state. More may have felt that his Utopia was "no place", but in actuality, it was merely a few roads down the block of human thought from Plato’s Republic.