The Defense of Pleasure

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents ix
4. Premises for Interpretation 1
5. The Praise of Pleasure 9
6. The Defense of Pleasure 17
7. Fortunes of Epicurus in Utopia 23
8. Criteria of true and false pleasure 36
9. False pleasures in Europe 44
10. True pleasures in Utopia 61
11. Education and Learning in general 78
12. Logic in Utopia 87
13. The Criticism of Scholasticism 102
14. Intellectual salvation 119
15. The great books in Utopia 135
16. Greek, pleasure, and communism: The Link 151
17. Humanism and Communism: The Background 160
18. Thomas More and communism: The Solution 175
19. Unity of Conception 192
20. Notes 201
21. Index 231