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This 5 page paper examines these two classics and suggests that More's idea is superior in creating good citizens and good government. Quotes are provided from each of the works. No additional sources cited.
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of enterprise at the expense of jobs. Many theories in terms of politics and policy differ in respect to the production of social capital. In other words, there are a
variety of policies and theories, but which ones produce good men, good citizens and good government? The answer is not easily discerned. There are many possibilities and the world is
quite complicated. In evaluating this topic, classic theorists can help to shed light on the answer to the compelling question. Which system of government is best? Which produces increased social
capital? Utopia, written by Sir Thomas More and Machiavellis The Prince are classics which in fact might help to resolve the matter of which type of ideology produces good
outcomes. Mores Utopia was first written in 1516. It was a time before Marxism and before the Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels during the
nineteenth century, but More was able to create a paradigm unlike any other. He went about creating a perfect world where there was no money and people would be able
to sustain themselves on little. They would barter. Things would be purportedly more even. This was perhaps an early form of communism or socialism. More realized that it would be
hard to find an established model to point to and so he created his own. More explains that "to find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, that is an
exceeding rare and hard thing" (20). Yet, it is good, wholesome laws that More would strive for. More was above all concerned with justice. Unlike some who support capitalism
with all its inadequacies, More was most concerned with the idea of fairness. He explains: "For what justice is this, that a rich goldsmith or an usurer or, to be
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