Utopia
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- Utopia is a philosophical concept coined after Sir Thomas More's novel De Optimo Reipublicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia.
Utopia (from Greek: οὐ no, and τόπος, place, i.e. "no place" or "place that does not exist") is an imaginary island, depicted by Sir Thomas More as a perfect social, legal, and political system. It may be used pejoratively, to refer to a society that is unrealistic and impossible to realize. It has also been used to describe actual communities founded in attempts to create an ideal society. Contrast with dystopia.
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See also
- The Man from Utopia, a Frank Zappa album
- Aline and Valcour, a novel by Sade about a utopia
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