Elimination of Private Property?
Hythloday:
• private property necessarily
results in injustice
• if people acquire property, there
is inevitably an exploiting class and
an exploited class
• eliminating private property =
eliminating poverty & suffering
Morus:
•People are not perfect
•Abolishing private property will
take away people’s incentive to
work
•No respect for authority when
all men are treated equal
Is Hythloday right that we should abolish private property
and that would solve society’s problems? Is More right – to
abolish private property would ultimately ruin society? Is
Utopia meant to inspire reform as an idealistic model or is
meant to discourage reform because it’s such an absurd
and impossible example?
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