A Fish-Eyed View of Things, Downtown Portland

Hence the practical reason cannot contain, in reference to such an object, an absolute prohibition of its use, because this would involve a contradiction of external freedom with itself. This punishment, as is here evidenced, is not limited only to the committers of unimaginably heinous crimes. Any impulse or activity perceived as

We gradually learn of the intensely prescriptive nature of the Utopian society; it seems that, in its dedication to achieving the absolute public good, the freedom of its inhabitants is undeniably compromised in several principle ways. What this article has succeeded in doing is uncovering a few of those pivotal problems lurking undeniably behind the perfect veneer of the society More has described; and these problems have proved themselves significant. While on the one hand the book overtly works to present us with a technically flawless plan for the organisation of society, on the other, it seems simultaneously to strive to make us aware of certain dubious features of that plan, which cannot help but limit reader enthusiasm in the approach to the whole.