2007-01-09 07:01:21 · 5 answers · asked by Gypsy Gal 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Utopia--- a book by Thomas More in 1517
Shangri la---- a book by Mervyn Brown
both of them incredible books, reflecting on how there can never be such a thing-- this fact makes them all the more desirable. The fact that something is a Utopia or is a Shangri La means that they are a dream, they can never be obtained. It is a lofty goal that we aim for, but we always fall short of.
2007-01-09 07:06:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I get a bit of stick for that too. I won't tell you mine but I am ambitiously ambitious, I don't see anything wrong in aiming high. One day I hope that humanity will think the same. We are getting there as the "shifting moral zeitgeist" would suggest. Although even Dawkins himself admits that it could all go the other way and we could revert to tribalism. I think that my utopia is, at the worst, a harmless delusion, unlike religion. However it was great to find out that Oxford professors Peter Atkins and Richard Dawkins shared my thoughts.
2007-01-09 10:35:29 · answer #2 · answered by anon4nw 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a million. An imaginary distant paradise in the international; utopia. 2. a miles off and secluded hideaway, commonly of super elegance and peacefulness. [After Shangri-l. a., the imaginary land interior the radical lost Horizon by technique of James Hilton.]
2016-12-15 19:42:48 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Somewhere in the Cook Islands or French Polynesia.. : )
2007-01-09 10:47:52 · answer #4 · answered by Century25 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Places? and drinks? 2nd one state of mind? and or feeling?
2007-01-09 07:06:06 · answer #5 · answered by smokingstonersweetheart 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋