Thomas More’s Utopia , Gilbert Burnet and Peter the Great
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20145250 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yelena Mazour-Matusevitch (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 51 (Number 197 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 211-230 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Moreana (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-8105 • E-ISSN: 2398-4961 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/more.2014.51.3-4.12 |
| OpenAlex | W2588698183 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
The article presents a hypothesis concerning a possible connection between Thomas More’s Utopia and the conception of the Russian city of St. Petersburg. The study’s premise is that More’s utopian model might be at least indirectly responsible for Peter the Great’s familiarity, although relative and limited, with Plato’s concept of an ideal city, acquired during the tsar’s prolonged interaction with Utopia’s English translator Gilbert Burnet in 1698 in England. The study focuses in particular on one component of Plato’s utopian model—the idea of an invisible state machine and its adaptation by Thomas More, Gilbert Burnet, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz and Peter the Great
Algorithm · Art history · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics) · Premise · State (computer science) · Utopia · Byzantine Studies and History · History · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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