HIST 367 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Utopia
HIST 367 – Week 4 – October 4, 2017
Establishing Boundaries; Problem of Definition; Reading Utopias
Davis
• How to create an ideal society
• H y y ?
• Defining feature of any ideal society is an effort to answer a problem
• Pg. 19: the problem – what is it? – this is KEY KEY KEY KEY
• Hook for Davis – 2 words
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o What is the collective problem?
▪ Relationship between limited supply and unlimited desire
• How many ideal societies does Davis identify?
o Land of Cockaygne – body utopia; total physical pleasure; satisfied desires;
unrealistic
o Arcadia – golden age
o Perfect moral commonwealth – civil responsibility
o Millennium
o Utopia – dealt with my restraint and punishment (p. 37)
• 3 terms (38)
o Totality; Order; Perfection
Boundaries
Ruppert
• Is it possible to change human nature (2)
• Desire to escape (3)
• Use of utopia (4)
• Efficacy of utopian desire (5)
• Visualizing possibilities (14)
• Functions of utopia
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