UTOPIA REVIVED? Parag Khanna’s Technocracy in America and Thomas More’s Utopia

Utopia is a recurrent motif in history. Starting with Plato’s Republic and through the works of numerous other thinkers, philosophers undertook bold endeavours of imagining entirely new societies beyond the existing ones. Despite utopia borders on dystopia and many of its features were embodied in t...

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Main Author: Laniuk, Yevhen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dharmaram College 2020
In: Journal of Dharma
Year: 2020, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 9-28
Further subjects:B Info-State
B Technocracy
B Ethical systems
B Democracy
B Utopia
B Isegoria
B Popular Will
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