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Utopian Thought And The Law Of Nations, Stas Getmanenko

Stas Getmanenko

Thomas More in his conversation with Raphael Hythloday agreed with Plato that “nations will be happy, when either philosophers become kings, or kings become philosophers.” Some five hundred years following More’s sojourn to the New Isle of Utopia, the “philosophers” remain in search of a societal order that would appropriately reflect and encompass the humanity’s best social and political contrivances. Inasmuch as humanity remains governed by law, and “[a]ll laws are promulgated for this end, that every man may know his duty,” the quest for a modern Utopia is then appropriately placed in the purview of jurisprudence. This legal article …