The Republic and Utopia The main features of Plato’s Republic and Thomas More’s Utopia can be outlined by examining their economic systems, laws and enforcement procedures, and their societal responsibilities. These three factors collectively considered as well as independently explored can bring light to their strength and weaknesses, characteristics and aspirations, and the overall desirability and pleasantness of life. Each single feature can only give a glimpse into these two Utopias, however, undivided …showed first 75 words of 1612 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1612 total…t mind a 6 hour work day yet without the drive of bettering myself for tomorrow, I really doubt I’d even get out of bed in the morning. My capitalistic mentality leads me to doubt the actual productivity of both states. Incessantly sacrificing only to better the state and never myself seems rather draining. Life would be too monotonous and undistinguished. With no hope of a better tomorrow, only another today, what’s the point?