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  Utopia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although some authors have described their utopias in detail, and with an effort to show a level of practicality, the term "utopia" has come to be applied to notions that are (supposedly) too optimistic and idealistic for practical application.
Religious utopias, perhaps expansively described as a garden of delights, existence free of worry amid streets paved with gold, in a bliss of enlightenment enjoying nearly godlike powers, are often a reason for perceiving benefit in remaining faithful to a religion, and an incentive for converting new members.
Utopia and Utopianism is an academic journal specialising in the subjects of utopia and utopianism.
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 utopia - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The utopia may be usefully contrasted with the undesirable dystopia (anti-utopia) and the satirical utopia.
Utopia is a republic where all property is held in common.
Capitalist utopias of this sort are generally based on perfect market economies, in which there is no market failure—or the issue is never addressed.
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 Utopia Online Research :: Information about Utopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Utopia is based on The Republic where all property is held in common.
Another socialist utopia is William Morris ' News from Nowhere, written partially in response to the top-down (Bureaucratic) nature of Bellamy's utopia, which Morris criticized.
Religion utopias, perhaps expansively described as a garden of delights, existence free of worry amid streets paved with gold, in a bliss of enlightenment enjoying nearly godlike powers, are often a reason for perceiving benefit in remaining faithful to a religion, and an incentive for Religious conversion new members.
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 Utopia : search word
An utopia can be either idealistic or practical, but the term has acquired a strong connotation of optimistic, idealistic, impossible perfection.
One notable example of a technological and libertarian utopia is Scottish author Iain M. Bank's Culture.
Plato's Republic (400 BC) was a description of a political utopia ruled by a philosopher king, conceived by Plato.
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 Utopia
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 Utopia: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The utopia may be usefully contrasted with the undesirable dystopia (dystopia: State in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror) (anti-utopia) and the satirical utopia (satirical utopia: satire is a literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject...
Utopia is a republic (republic: A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch) where all property is held in common.
Utopia (Utopia: An imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal) (1516) by Thomas More (Thomas More: English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state)
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 Utopia Did You Mean utopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Utopia, in its most common and general positive meaning, refers to the human efforts to create a better society, a perfect society that does not exist (yet).
"Utopia" in a negative meaning is used to discr ideas as too advanced, too optimistic or unrealistic, impossible to realize.
Furthermore it is a perfect version of The Republic where the beauties of society, eg equalism and no war, all exist and the evils of society, eg poverty and misery, are all extinct.
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 Utopia - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
"Utopia" in a negative meaning is used to discredit ideas as too advanced, too optimistic or unrealistic, impossible to realize.
His book reached high popularity so the term utopia became a byword for ideal concepts, proposals, societies etc. Therefore for every author who proposes a utopia, it usually involves criticisms of many faults in the world, and all these faults will disappear in his envisioned society.
Although some authors have described their utopia with some sorts of practicality, the term utopia has become stereotyped as reflecting notions that are too optimistic and idealistic for practical application; and readers will often mislabel their concepts as impossible or void.
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 Utopia Backrest -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Utopia is "no-place", with a play-on-words between "no-place" and "good-place" (eutopia).
The Principality of New Utopia is a new country project (sometimes referred to as a micronation) founded in the mid 1990's by Oklahoma resident Lazarus Long, his family and business associates and sometimes referred to as a scam by individuals who see the overstated claims as being unattainable.
Long was born Howard Turney, and was associated with a number of projects apparently intended to extend the human lifespan prior to legally changing his name in 1996 to that of a fictional character endowed with great longevity created by the science fiction author Robert Heinlein, who was also noted for his libertarian views.
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 Golden Age (metaphor) Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The term originated from early Greek and Roman poets who used to refer to a time when mankind lived in a utopia and was pure (see Golden Age).
The term refers to a time when mankind lived in a utopia and was pure and/or immortal.
Socialists grounded their ideas firmly in what they saw as the realities of the age; among the different emerging socialist currents, Marxism became by far the harshest critic of utopian socialism.
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 Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Utopia
Capitalist utopias of this sort are generally based on perfect market economies, in which there is no market failureandmdash;or the issue is never addressed.
Utopia is the name of a popular mmorpg online game.
Le Guin presents a utopian world in which ditches do need digging, and sewers need unblocking andmdash; this drudgery is divided among all adults, and is contrasted, in the language of the utopia, with their everyday, more satisfying work.
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 Utopia: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The utopia may be usefully contrasted with the undesirable dystopia (State in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror)
Utopia is a republic (A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch)
Capitalist utopias of this sort are generally based on perfect market (A free market is an economic term for an idealized market system, where all economic decisions and actions by...)
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 Utopia
Utopia is the name of a popular, free, textbased MMORPG online game.
Utopia was created by Swirve in 1998 (at the time known as Solaria Games).
Society for Utopian Studies (http://www.utoronto.ca/utopia/) is the Main Page for the Society for Utopian Studies, an international, interdisciplinary association devoted to the study of utopianism in all its forms, with a particular emphasis on literary and experimental utopias.
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 I cite: Bloch and Adorno on Utopia
Utopia was passing less auspiciously under other names now, he remarked, for example, “science fiction” and the beginnings of sentences starting with “If only it were so…”
“Whatever utopia is,” he said, “whatever can be imagined as utopia, this is the transformation of the totality.
Adorno declared that there could be no picture of utopia cast in a positive manner, there could be no positive picture of it at all, nor could any picture be complete.
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 Utopia (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Utopia is a philosophical concept coined after Sir Thomas More's novel De Optimo Reipublicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia.
Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA), a consortium of 14 Utah cities deploying a fiber optic network
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 Utopia -
The term "utopia" is combined from 2 Greek words - "no" (ou) and "place / land" (topos), thus meaning "nowhere" or more literally, "no-place / no-land".
Technology has affected the way humans have lived to such an extent that normal functions, like sleep, eating or even reproduction, has been replaced by an artifical means.
Other kinds of this utopia envisioned, include a society where human has struck a balance with technology and it is merely used to enhance the human living conditon (ie.
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See Utopia (disambiguation) Utopia utopian An utopia can be either idealistic or practical connotation of optimistic, idealistic, impossible perfection dystopia (anti-utopia) and the satirical utopia.
Contents 1 Origin of the term 2 Economic utopias 3 Political and historical utopias 4 Religious utopias 5 Scientific and technological utopias 6 Examples 7 See also 8 External links Origin of the term The term Utopia was coined by Thomas More Latin book (circa 1516), known more commonly as Utopia.
He created the word "utopia" to suggest two Greek neologisms simultaneously: outopia (no place) and eutopia republic lawyers, and rarely sends its citizens to war, but hires mercenaries from among its war-prone neighbours.
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 Utopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 I cite: Losing Utopia
I've been thinking about the loss of utopia, the way that the very term 'utopia' seems today to be a criticism or dismissal, a charge of inflexibility, impracticality, or dogmatism.
I think of utopias as possibilities, as openings to the chance that things might be other than they are, that they might be better.
We hear that America's freedom is under attack, that we are hated because we are free.
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 Utopia - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS (Build Your Own)
Team 10: In Search of a Utopia of the Present 1953-81
Tinkering toward Utopia : A Century of Public School Reform
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 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Plato's Republic (400 BC) was, at least on one level, a description of a political utopia ruled by a philosopher king, conceived by Plato.
Equilibrium(2002), is a film and describes a future in which feelings are forbidden.
Utopia is one of the largest free interactive online games in the world, with over 80,000 players - absolutely free to join!
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 Aberrant - White Wolf
Project Utopia, an organization founded by the Æon Society to study and to help novas
The Directive, a multi-national government agency whose goals are similar to Utopias, except one of their mission statements is to act as watchdog over Utopia's excesses
Various other minor allegiances exist, such as acting as an elite mercenary for the DeVries Agency, as a municipal defender, the ecoterrorist group Greenwar, the informal Queer Nova Alliance, and so on.
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 Avalon -
Avalon (probably from the Celtic word abal: apple; see Etymology below) is a legendary island somewhere in the British Isles, famous for its beautiful apples.
Avalon is typically featured in the countless adaptations of Arthurian legend.
References to Avalon, or use of Avalon as an unrelated name, appear frequently in popular culture, see Avalon (disambiguation) for a list.
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 utopia - OneLook Dictionary Search
Utopia, utopia : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
Phrases that include utopia: new latin utopia, british airways utopia livery, gardens utopia carver, isaac asimov's utopia, man from utopia, more...
Words similar to utopia: zion, eden, new latin utopia, paradise, more...
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 Utopia -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
For other uses of this term, see Utopia (disambiguation).
The term "utopia"" is combined from 2 Greek words - "not" (oi) and "place" (topos), thus meaning "nowhere".
This page was last modified 18:55, 24 January 2006.
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 Kristie's Utopia Web Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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As dramatically unimpressed as I remain with the consumer-end of its upcoming operating system, Microsoft is doing a number of cool things for Windows software developers.
Funky Utopia has been a creative planning genius at times!
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 Utopia Quotes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Since this style is ''not'' ugly, we can use it in ordinary writing, and the British do; the Americans, however, move the period inside the quotation marks, because...
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