Thomas More

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Referenced as part of the genealogy of Atlantis-related ideas. The hosts note that More's 1516 work about a perfect realm appeared at exactly the moment when Europeans were discovering Mexico and the Maya, and that the concept of an ideal society in a distant land connects to the evolving myth of Atlantis as a utopian civilization.

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Mentioned when discussing how Sparta's idea of universal education influenced later thinkers, noting that Thomas More picked up on this concept in Utopia

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Referenced as an example of proto-communist ideas, described as Thomas More's vision of a society where people share property at the turn of the 16th century