{"id":202,"date":"2015-10-07T19:57:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T19:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/utopias13\/?p=20"},"modified":"2015-10-07T19:57:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T19:57:03","slug":"on-private-property-riches-and-poverty-discussion-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasfall2015\/2015\/10\/07\/on-private-property-riches-and-poverty-discussion-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOn Private Property, Riches, and Poverty\u201d Discussion Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/utopias13\/files\/2015\/10\/utopia-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"utopia-2\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;\" \/><p>The article argues\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that private property is not a bad thing and that communal property (extreme egalitarianism) is not necessarily the way to create a harmonious society, in contrast to More\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Utopia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The article demonstrates this with the example of Jesus Christ and his followers. While Jesus requires all of his followers to give up private property in order to become his disciple, he does not admonish them for choosing not to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1) Which contains a more persuasive argument, the article or\u00a0<em>Utopia?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2) Is it impossible to be wealthy in a utopian society? Consider different kinds of wealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article argues\u00a0that private property is not a bad thing and that communal property (extreme egalitarianism) is not necessarily the way to create a harmonious society, in contrast to More\u2019s Utopia. The article demonstrates this with the example o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33145,33147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-4-the-phalanx","category-student-posts","column","twocol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6CkTy-3g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasfall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasfall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasfall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasfall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasfall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasfall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasfall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasfall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasfall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasfall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}