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How did Thomas More’s work help spread humanistic ideas?

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Perhaps the greatest contribution of Thomas More to the humanist cause was his work "Utopia" which painted a picture of a hypothetical "perfect" island nation where everyone was happy. 
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Thomas More's work help spread humanistic ideas by applying them to the society.

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Thomas More was an English member of parliament, chancellor, lawyer and writer that analyzed and criticized society, and purposed revolutionary humanistic ideas. His more famous work was Utopia, where he described a "perfect" society, where there were no distinctions between people, women's rights were equal to men, education was controlled by the state and property was owned by all. This humanistic ideas More proposed in his book Utopia, can be also appear today as communism.

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