The Center for Thomas More Studies: 2005 Conference on Utopia

2005 Thomas More Studies Conference

Law, Conscience, and Utopian Justice

Nov. 4-6, 2005: Utopia (a society without lawyers and with very few laws)
and More’s poems about justice that accompanied the 1518 editions of Utopia

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Proceedings: Thomas More Studies 1 (2006)

Materials

All documents in PDF.

Schedule for the 2005 Conference

9 Page Study Outline of Utopia, Cambridge Revised Edition

Study Guide for Utopia, Original Cambridge Edition

Interrogating Thomas More: The Conundrums of Conscience by Steven D. Smith (University of St. Thomas Law Journal, used with permission)

Articles from Moreana on Utopia

Surtz, Edward. "Illustrations in the Yale Utopia." (May 1966)

O'Grady, W. "A Note on Busleyden's Letter to Thomas More." (Sept. 1966)

Derrett, J. D. M. "The Utopian Alphabet." (Nov. 1966)

Allen, Ward. "Some Remarks on Gold." (Mar. 1968)

Schoeck, Richard. "On Reading More's Utopia as Dialogue." (May. 1969)

Allen, Ward. "Hythloday and the Root of All Evil."(Nov. 1971)

Coogan, Robert. "NVNC VIVO VT VOLO."(Nov. 1971)

Doyle, Charles Clay. "Utopia and the Proper Place of Gold." (Nov. 1971)

Halkin, Leon-E. "Mithra Dans l'Utopie de More." (Nov. 1971)

Johnson, Robbin S. "The Argument for Reform in Utopia." (Nov. 1971)

Jones, Judith. "Plato's Philebus and Utopian Hedonism." (Nov. 1971)

Khanna, Lee Cullen. "Open-mindedness in the Commonwealth." (Nov. 1971)

Lacombe, M.-M. "La Sagesse D'Epicure Dans L'Utopie De More." (Nov. 1971)

McCuthcheon, Elizabeth. "The Litotes in Utopia." (Nov. 1971)

Peters, Robert. "The Utopia and More's Orthodoxy." (Nov. 1971)

Prevost, Andre. "L'Utopie Comme Genre Litteraire." (Nov. 1971)

Quattrocki, Ed. "Injustice, the Theme of Utopia Book I." (Nov. 1971)

Sawada, Paul Akio. "Toward the Definition of Utopia." (Nov. 1971)

Seeber, Hans Ulrich. "Hythloday and a Debt to Macrobius." (Nov. 1971)

Dust, Philip. "Gentili's Commentaries on Utopian War." (Feb. 1973)

Stevens, Irma Ned. "Aesthetic Distance in the Utopia." (Nov. 1974)

Allen, Ward S. "The Tone of More's Farewell to Utopia." (Sep. 1976)

Evans, John X. "The Kingdom Within More's Utopia." (Jun. 1977)

Sylvester, Richard S. "Three Dialogues." (March 1980)

Wilson, Katharina. "More and Theophrastus--An Idea Put to Work." (Oct. 1980)

Evans, John X. "Utopia on Prospero's Island." (Mar. 1981)

Murphy, Clare M. "Ottoman Analogs to More's Utopia." (Mar. 1981)

Rudat, Wolfgang E.H. "More's Raphael Hythloday." (Mar. 1981)

Schaeffer, John D. "Socratic Method in More's Utopia." (Mar. 1981)

Simon, Elliott. "More's Utopia: Creating an Image of the Soul." (Mar. 1981)

Williams, Franklin B. "Utopia's Chickens Come Home to Roost." (Mar. 1981)

Hammond, Eugene R. "Hythloday's Questions." (Jun. 1981)

Blaim, Artur. "More's Utopia: Persuasion or Polyphony?" (Feb. 1982)

Baumann, Uwe. "Herodotus, Aulus Gellius, and More's Utopia." (Feb. 1983)

Giuseppe, Di Scipio. "De re Militari in the Prince and Utopia." (Feb. 1983)

Pineas, Rainer. "More's Utopia and the 'Tragedy' of Polonius." (Jun. 1983)

Gueguen, John A. "Why Is There No University in Utopia?" (Dec. 1983)

Surtz, Edward L. "'Like a Fountain Stirred'." (Dec. 1983)

White, Thomas I. "On Plato and Utopia." (Dec. 1984)

Branham, R Bracht. "Utopian Laughter: Lucian and Thomas More." (Jul. 1985)

McCutcheon, Elizabeth. "Utopia and Cicero's Paradoxa Stoicorum." (Jul. 1985)

Grace, Damian. "Utopia: A Dialectical Interpretation." (1989)

Olin, John C. "Erasmus' Adagia and More's Utopia." (1989)

Corrigan, K. "The Function of the Ideal in The Republic and Utopia." (Dec. 1990)

Wegemer, Gerard. "Ciceronian Humanism in More's Utopia." (Dec. 1990)

O' Brien, Brian. "J.H. Hexter and the Text of Utopia: A Reappraisal." (Jun. 1992)

Wilson, Nigel G. "The Name Hythlodaeus." (Jun. 1992)

Baker, David. "First Among Equals: The Utopian Princeps." (Dec. 1993)

Logan, George M. "Interpreting Utopia: 10 Recent Studies." (Jun. 1994)

Logan, George M. "Utopia and Deliberative Rhetoric." (Jun. 1994)

Martinez Lopez, Miguel. "The Life of the Essenes and Utopians." (Jun. 1994)

Billingsley, Dale B. "Halfhearted Busleyden." (Jun. 1995)

Evans, Scott. "'Divine Consideration:' Utopia in Defense of Poetry." (Mar. 1996)

Gordon, Walter M. "Maiestas in Thomas More's Political Thought." (Mar. 1997)

Farnell, James E. "The Governmental Structure of Utopia." (Jun. 1997)

Marc'hadour, Germain. "Utopia: Comparing 7 Recent Translations." (Jun. 2001)

Farnell, James E. "Nusquama and Natural Law." (Dec. 2002)

Baker, David Weil. "Ruin and Utopia." (Sep. 2003)

Audio of Lectures

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"Humanist More", by Dr. George M. Logan

Dr. George M. Logan is principal editor of the Cambridge Utopia; co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature (5th-8th editions); editor of the forthcoming History of King Richard III by Thomas More; author of The Meaning of More's "Utopia" (Princeton UP); Cappon Professor of English, Queen's University, Canada.

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Dr. George M. Logan

Panel No. 1: An Historical Inquiry: "Interrogating Thomas More"

"Failed Politican? Saintly Statesman? Faithful Conscience!," by Rev. Joseph Koterski, S.J.

Fr. Koterski, Chair of Philosophy at Fordham University, is responding to "Interrogating Thomas More: The Conundrums of Conscience," a law review article by Prof. Steven D. Smith of San Diego Law School.

Reply by Professor Smith
Prof. Koterski's response, then Conference participants get their say.

Chair: Russell Osgood, President of Grinnell College and past Dean of Cornell Law School.

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From left to right: Rev. Koterski, Russell Osgood, Dr. Steven D. Smith

Panel No. 2: "The Development of Thomas More Studies"

Panel Exchange

With Dr. Elizabeth McCutcheon (Professor Emerita and Past President of Amici Thomae Mori), Dr. Clarence H. Miller, and Dr. George M. Logan.

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From left to right: Dr. McCutcheon, Dr. Miller, Dr. Logan

Symposium No. 1: More's Utopia, Book 1

Dr. Stephen W. Smith: the literary perspective
Dr. Jeff Lehman: the philosophic perspective
Questions and Discussion

Can the learned professions really affect justice? Who wins this argument: More the lawyer or Raphael the experienced observer?

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Dr. Stephen W. Smith (left) and Dr. Lehman (right)

Symposium No. 2: More's Utopia, Book 2

Dr. Richard Dougherty, the political perspective
Dr. John Boyle, the theological perspective

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Questions and Discussion

According to Raphael's account, what is the view of law, justice, government, and statesmanship as they have evolved over the 1,760 years of Utopia's existence? Is this view attractive to you? Why?

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Dr. Boyle (left) and Dr. Dougherty (right)

Symposium No. 3: More's Utopia as a Whole

Final Statements on the philosophical, literary, political, and theological dimensions, followed by discussion.

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From left to right: Dr. Stephen W. Smith, Dr. Lehman, Dr. Boyle, Dr. Dougherty

Banquet Address, by Dr. Clarence H. Miller

Dr. Miller is Executive Editor of Yale UP's Complete Works of St. Thomas More; translator of the 2001 Yale edition of Utopia, Professor Emeritus of St. Louis Univ.

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Academic Seminars

Panel Discussion

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