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Next, let’s summarize Copernicus. Strictly speaking, Copernicus was not only a great astronomer, he also made outstanding achievements in many aspects. He was proficient in Latin and Greek and had great knowledge of ancient times.
He has a lot of research on Roman literature. He also drew the water supply systems of various cities in Ermenland. His medical skills are also famous, and even people outside the parish often ask him to treat patients. He even wrote a book "Currency"
The economics work "General Theory" advocates the implementation of currency reform and limiting the amount of currency issuance to curb the chaos caused by currency devaluation to the domestic market.
Okay, now we have finished understanding the life of Copernicus. In the life of Copernicus, we can also find that, just like what I said before, the world has long become a little strange. High-level officials in Western countries
They are all selfish. In other words, almost all of us humans are selfish. There are really not many people who can be selfless. So from my point of view, this world is as disgusting as a cesspool. In fact, we are not.
Working hard for the progress of mankind, we civilians spend our whole lives working hard for the extravagant and extravagant lives of other people who have human rights than us, so we are all talking tools, and
It may even evolve into a tool that cannot speak.
In short, we have talked about the above topics here. At this point, we understand that all kinds of ugliness in this world are indirectly hindering the progress of human beings. In fact, some things will still happen indirectly under this situation, such as what we focused on before.
The caste system in India, and even the Buddhist culture that emerged when Indians yearn for a better life. In fact, we humans also want to live a good life. No one likes to be a so-called untouchable, a talking tool, or even a speechless tool.
, so some sensible people use their imagination. Since people in India can imagine Buddhist culture, then the unequal relationship between high-level officials and even civilians in Western countries will lead to what kind of common people in Western countries can imagine.
What about the beautiful world? Now let’s take a look at a more famous fantasy, Utopia.
Thomas More was born on February 7, 1478. He was also born into a wealthy family in London. From here we can easily see that this reflects the point of view we have been mentioning before, innate
Conditions, so Thomas More's education will definitely not have any big problems, because he is not short of food or clothing, let alone farming, so he also has a lot of time to study.
Thomas More's father once served as a judge of the Royal High Court of England. Therefore, More's childhood education must have been better than that of children from ordinary wealthy families. By the time More was twelve years old, according to the British law at this time
The social custom is to serve as an attendant to celebrities. This is actually very powerful. Celebrities generally have certain achievements before they can become famous. Therefore, celebrities must have a certain degree of strength. Letting children serve as attendants to celebrities is indirect.
I also learned a lot of valuable experiences and other knowledge from celebrities.
So More's father sent More to the home of John Morton, the Archbishop of Canterbury, as a page. Morton was a great person, he was an archbishop. Is this a joke? But More can work as a page in the Archbishop's house.
This is also because More’s family is rich and famous. Ordinary children certainly cannot have such conditions. For example, the archbishop will not want a peasant child who smells bad and only knows how to do farm work. Moreover, under the archbishop’s family,
In the eyes, such people are untouchables. In fact, this is the truth of our world. However, whether they are children of farmers or the current Moore, they are actually human beings, and there is no difference at all. They are just natural conditions.
As a result of the circumstances of the day after tomorrow, the two children's life destinies took completely different trajectories.
Continuing with our topic, Morton is not only an archbishop. He can sit in the position of archbishop, which means that he is at least a very knowledgeable scholar. And Morton is not limited to this. He is also a lawyer, an architect, and
A very experienced politician and diplomat.
Up to this point, More had been influenced by his experience while working as an attendant in the Morton family. In addition, More had received a good education from his excellent father since he was a child, so he was smart, diligent and studious. This led to More's rapid progress. Morton also
He once said to his friends: The child serving next to our table will definitely become an outstanding person in the future. In Britain at this time, Latin was a passport to the upper class, so when More was fourteen years old, he
He was sent to St. Anne's School in London to study Latin by his wealthy father.
By 1492, after his previous efforts, More entered Oxford University and began to study classical literature. While at Oxford University, he read extensively many ancient Greek philosophers and many contemporary humanities.
Among them, Plato's thoughts had the greatest influence on More, making him a humanist. Later, More switched to law and became a very upright lawyer, gaining high prestige.
Moreover, all the conditions for More were met, so the current More was elected as a member of Parliament. After that, More rose step by step, was knighted, served as Speaker of the House of Commons, and became the Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom.
The figure of the king. He was later executed because Morel opposed King Henry VIII of England and became the religious leader of England.
Now we have a rough understanding of More's entire life, and then let's take a look at what kind of wealth More has brought to our world in his past life, so let's start from the beginning.
The United Kingdom in More's era was under the rule of Henry VIII. The royal family was greedy and engaged in foreign aggression and expansion. Officials deceived the superiors and subordinates. Corruption was common. The nobles and big businessmen colluded with the British high-level officials to defraud the people. We have discussed it here.
It is not difficult to find that at this time, the British civilians were living in a world of purgatory, and they were simply miserable. Moreover, at this time, the British aristocrats and big businessmen, in order to obtain high profits from raising sheep, transferred tens of thousands of people to sheep.
The farmers were driven away and occupied their land.
At this point, some people may be wondering, why can the nobles and big businessmen drive away the farmers? In fact, as we have said before, the nobles and big businessmen are also connected with the British high-level people, and their common goal is just
If the civilians wanted to rebel, they could actually carry out massacres, so the farmers had no choice but to obey the nobles and big businessmen in order to save their lives. Then some people may have doubts again, and the farmers were driven away, and now they all raise sheep.
Now, how do you farm wheat? Do you only eat mutton? No! The most profitable thing here is not the mutton, but the wool! These wools are very valuable, and the money is universal, so the money can also be obtained from neighboring countries.
You can even buy food in other countries, so as long as you have money, all problems can be solved. Then there are farmers growing food, which is not as much money as raising sheep. Therefore, these farmers who were driven away
, have all become homeless, because all they own is a piece of land. Although this land is still heavily taxed every day, and is defrauded of food by big businessmen, and is exploited by the nobles, and is even looked down upon by everyone, but even though
What can farmers do like this? If they have weapons in their hands, if they don’t obey, if they don’t work hard for their extravagant, lustful, or even extravagant and high-quality life, they will kill them. Is this a joke?
So the current situation in the UK is that these landless farmers can only start to live a wandering life in order to save their lives. But if they wander a lot, they will starve to death. Where can there be so much food? Nobles, big businessmen and even high-level officials have
The land was used to raise sheep, and the grain obtained by selling the sheep belonged to the high-ranking officials, nobles, and big businessmen, and they could not eat it. Therefore, many landless farmers starved to death, and then some
Some peasants who complained that the sky was not working and the land was not working, became bandits in order to survive. So it is not difficult to see from this that the current situation in Britain is too terrible. At this time, Moore was still a bitch.
As a powerful man, he saw everything in Britain, so he was extremely dissatisfied with the current social status quo in Britain, so he wrote the book "Utopia" to satirize the dark reality and express his own thoughts.
The full title of the book "Utopia" is, "A useful and interesting book about the most perfect state system and the new island of Utopia". As for the word Utopia, it comes from the Greek, which means a place without. This book
The book is in the form of a conversation between More and a sailor, telling the sailor's vivid and interesting experiences in a strange island country, that is, in Utopia. Next, we will learn a little about this book.
Utopia is a large island. There are fifty-four cities on the island. Each city is divided into four districts. Every thirty households in each district elect a low-level official, and then elect a high-level official from among ten low-level officials.
Officials. The capital of Utopia, the city of Yamauroti, is in the center of the island, which makes it convenient for representatives from various cities to hold meetings. The highest institution in Utopia is the Senate, with representatives from the fifty-four cities on the island sending three experienced
The composition of citizens is changed once a year to discuss matters related to the public interests of the entire island. The Senate elects a person to be the king. The king is lifelong, but if the king abuses the people, he can be impeached. In addition to occasionally organizing the people to resist foreign aggression, the top management
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