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‘Thomas More’s Utopia and virtue politics’ - The Dacre Lecture (held in association with the History Faculty)
Meritocracy is usually taken to be a modern concept, but political meritocracy—the belief that government can be improved by ‘elevating the worthy’, i.e. well-educated persons of good character and successful experience in office—is found in many historical societies from imperial China to the Roman republic. This lecture will present the meritocratic thought of the little-known humanist Francesco Patrizi of Siena, the principal theorist of Renaissance virtue politics, and use his De institutione reipublicae (1471) to show that Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) should be situated within this rich tradition of political philosophy.
Date:
12 May 2023, 17:00
Venue:
All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details:
The Old Library
Speaker:
Professor James Hankins (Harvard)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark
