Exam 3: Utopias: Model States

After reading about these utopian societies, can you see any common characteristics of these societies? Discuss these common characteristics and why they are vital to utopian success.

What term is used to describe the abolishment of private property and the creation of a classless society?

What does the word "utopia" mean?

Are the characteristics of dystopia apparent in any twentieth- or twenty-first century regimes or societies? If so, briefly discuss such a regime's characteristics.

How are utopias useful to the study of political science? What practical purposes do they serve?

In which of these utopias is private property abolished?

Although it was obviously a Christian society, Bacon's Bensalem emphasized religious freedom.

Which writer provided only a vague outline of what his utopia would look like?

The Republic was a highly actionable blueprint from Plato for creating a new political regime.

The word utopia comes from a book by Robert Owen.

Utopias new and old help us understand the possibilities and limits of politics.

Even if we could create a utopian society, why would it not survive?

Whose work is considered to offer a dystopian vision of society?

Political philosophy is the study of fundamental questions about how government can balance the needs of society versus the wants of society.

Karl Marx viewed the shift to communism as inevitable.

Compared to Marx, Bacon offers a more detailed description of his utopian society, Bensalem.

Which utopia was based on more psychological principles?

Who thought that their utopian vision would actually be achieved?

Behind utopian visions are a set of shared assumptions about human beings and what is best for them.

A visionary system embodying perfect political and social order is called a dystopia.