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1º_ 'Utopia' is a place imagined by the philosopher Thomas More and described in his work Libellus vere aureus , nec minus salutaris quam festivus , de optimo reipublicae statu , deque nova insula Vtopi ( "Truly golden booklet, no less beneficial than entertaining, on the best state of a republic and on the new island of Utopia", 1516 ) as "a South American island with a perfect society, without political, cultural or legal conflicts." The name was taken from the Greek 964; 959; 960; 959; 962; ( moles "place" ) and used as a prefix a particle 959; 965; ( ou ) which was translated as "no", although some scholars assume that he actually used 949; 965; (eu "good") , so it can be interpreted as "no place" and also as "good place". 2º_ For the previous one, "ideal but unattainable aspiration, or of very difficult realization". 3º_ For the first, it is used as the name of a literary genre about perfect societies or civilizations. See dystopia, antiutopia, ucrony.

  

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