Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: In Search of the Meaning of Utopia
Part I: The Mystery of More's "Either/Or" 1505 Decision: Bodily and Mental Issues before Late 1504
1 Religion, Law, and Humanism
2 The Lectures on Augustine's City of God (c. 1501)
3 The Translations of Pico's Writings (1504)
4 The Despairing Letter to Colet (1504)
5 January 1505: An Ambivalent Decision?
Part II: More's Radically New, Both/And, Paradigm: Erasmus' De taedio Iesu and the Enchiridion, 1503

1 Thomas More's Transformation: A First Reading of De taedio Iesu and the Enchiridion
2 Erasmus' Biography of More
3 The Unexplained Explained
Part III: More's Lucian, 1506
and Utopia: Teaching Stoic Two-Dimensional Christianity
1 Joy and the New Frame of Mind
2 A New Analysis of Saints' Lives
3 The Role of Cynicus and Menippus
4 Modelling Books I-III of De officiis
5 A Relationship to Utopia?
Part IV: Thomas More as Unitarily "Democritus" and "The Man For All Seasons": Erasmus' Preface to The Praise of Folly, 1510

Part V: A Stoic/Morean Praise of Folly, 1511: The Praise of Folly Works Out More's Stoic-Framed Transformation
1 The Rhetoric Is Brilliant but Secondary
2 Is Reality Abstract or Worldly? Or Both?
3 Truth Is "Truer Than Truth Itself" (The Stoic Unitary Both/And)
4 Highest Piety Is Unitarily Two-Dimensional
5 Why Is Folly Silent Regarding the Foundation of Her Thinking?
Part VI: Utopian Philosophy, 1516: Epicureanism within a Stoic Honestum/Utile Frame
1 Moral Philosophy
2 Stoic Corrections of Epicureans: Religious Absolutes

3 Stoic Corrections of Epicureans: Moral Absolutes
4 Stoic Utile Expanded
5 Stoic Justice Expanded
6 Corollaries
Part VII: Utopian Warfare: A Unitary Two-Dimensional Mindset
1 Super Machiavellians?
2 "Utter Loathing of War" and Yet a Thoroughly Militarized State
3 Righteous Cunning, Stratagem, and Ferocity
4 Beyond Machiavelli, a Seamless Mindset: Embryonic Soldiers of Christ
Part VIII: What Wiseman Hythloday Did Not Understand
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index