what is UTOPIA ?

Question

i would like to know the meaning of utopia, from different kind of persons.. what utopia means for themselves

Answer 1

utopia actually means 'no place'. It's a paradise, a perfect paradise, minus government, conflict, war, greed. It's a society where equals exist. However this society itself doesn't exist. Thomas More wrote Utopia, the novel describing this land.

Answer 2

More's Utopia didn't lack society, money, or constraint.

All classic utopias, whether Plato, Fourier, Marx, or Huxley acknowledge the necessity of social construction--- anarchists may think it's a state of pure freedom and lawlessness, but that's not the textual answer.

Thinking about the whys and hows of our current conditions and juxtaposing them to others can be quite helpful. The status quo is always on the verge of being the "natural" and "inevitable" always. We, by no means, have lighted upon the perfect mode of existence. Nor do utopianists have all the answers-- some arguments rely much on Science Fiction-- but there are fleshy theories that are far more rational than the rigamarole we currently use. Implementation takes practice. A world of theory without practice is vain.

Answer 3

Literally, Utopia comes from the Greek for "nowhere."

The concept of utopia embodies a perfecly harmonious society without crime and without want. (If you've seen the commercials for Walgreens with the town of "Perfect", you've seen a consumerized version of utopia.)

Paradise, either in the temporal or spiritual sense, is represented in a utopian manner.

There's also the concept of dystopia, which is a society which, at first, looks perfect, but has many negative aspects. Examples abound in literature. We by Zamyatin portrays a world in which all humans are reduced to numbers, slaves to the Machine and its clocks, where any deviance is punished. Brave New World shows a hyperconsumerist world populated by a few elites with everything, a lot of cloned morons with nothing, and lifelong brainwashing to convince people they are happy. The RPG Paranoia has an underground city in which everyone's needs are taken care of so long as they work (yeah right).

Answer 4

Well I know of 2 answers; Utopia was originally from a book, and had a proposition in it how mankind should live socially. In the Victorian Days, a group of people tried to model a society upon that book-but it failed. For me now Utopia would mean A Perfect Social World to live in. But I think that would fail also.(>>sigh<<)

Answer 5

An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. Hence, any place or state of ideal perfection.

Answer 6

If you want a really interesting take on Utopia, read the Dispossessed by Ursala K LeGuin.

Answer 7

It's a place where everything is completely perfect.
I think that there will never be a real utopia, however.
It's nothing more than a dream.

Answer 8

Utopia is the perfect world. No need for law enforcement or anything like that because everything is perfect.

No famine, no war, no murderers or rapists, no cancer or other life threatening diseases. Just perfection.

We all wish!!

Answer 9

Technically utopia is paradise so......sitting by a warm fire, with a blanket, a glass of fantastic champagne and a really good book.

Answer 10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia