OCC CIV NOTES 9/22

Utopia- pp 1-135
is he gonna lecture on a book we havent read yet....
why is he talking about utopia??? for christ's sake, let us freaking read it!

England- governed by monarchy, with a very powerful nobility
-parliament is essentially powerless
-clerics in the church farmed huge tracts of land, farmed them using 'serfs'
-theft was extremely harshly punished
-steal 1 shilling's worth of goods- you were executed

Moore lived in a craaaazy time..
-should philosophers serve the king if the king is evil?

revival of classical texts...
some people were actually better than others
-nobility was in the blood
-nobility meant that you could be a better person (because you were richer than everybody else)
-only the truly noble can ever be 'truly noble'

Utopia- no theft... whatever... i really dont want to do work.