ENG 2132 Lecture Notes - Phylarch, Enclosure, Feudalism
28 Feb 2014
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Utopia- book one: enclosure movement: one of the most quoted bits of book one is the part about sheep devouring men (37). (feudal system slowly becoming extinct). The mentioned quote refers to sheep taking over the areas once allotted to serfs (working farmers). Lords would evict families or tear down their houses to make way for pastures to farm sheep (which requires minimal human labor only a few shepherds). Thieves: wrong to hang thieves; better to eliminate the cause of the need to steal (34). Those causes include loss of land and work for rural people (37-38), too many unemployed private soldiers and retainers. Vice: vice is the cause of crime- gambling, drinking, sexual vice. Some of hythloday"s observations on humane and efficient justice will be echoed in. Appeal to bible: commandment says not to kill (40). Counter-productive to execute for theft; it may encourage murder (40). Precedent for punishing productively romans punished crime by hard labor (41).
