Author Archives: Max Thornton

How does what I’ve learned about social utopias, past and present, influence my interpretation of the sources in my seminar paper?

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First of all reading Thomas Moore’s Utopia informs a lot of how I understand what an earlier view of utopia in history sounds like rather than a more modern one. I am able to see Oneida as a further version of what Moore imagined. Moreover, the s…

How does my research address the problem(s) of utopia? What connections could I make with More’s Utopia in my seminar paper?

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My research addresses the problem of Utopia in a myriad of ways. Beginning with the book New Heaven, New Earth we see that for an intentional community to be successful a prophet is actually necessary and there a little examples that prove otherwise. T…

“What are the hierarchies of information in my research. Other than chronologically, how can I organize your research and its claims in a logical way?”

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My research can be organised in a logical way that is not just chronological. I start with a broad look at Millenium movements in the 19th century through the book New Heaven, New Earth. This is the logical place to start as it puts Oneida in a histori…

Why should anyone care about what I have learned from this research? What makes my findings at all interesting or relevant to this class or to my life as a UR student?

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My research is now centered around how Noyes was able to interpret Christianity and how subsequently this understanding was then prefaced into practises at Oneida. This to me is an interesting topic because it shows how religion affects our world view….

How did this week’s research help me come to my final research question?

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A lot of my research has helped me explore my interests and meander between topics. After reading the first Foster source I really enjoyed the style of writing and so I sought out another source from Foster entitled Free Love and Feminism. This delved …

What do I know about this topic? What more do I need to know to situate this topic in the problem of utopia?

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The Oneida community is fascinating! From reading only the Lawrence Foster source so far I have been able to extrapolate a lot of key information. I have begun to understand the multi-faced philosophy of Noyes. He saw our modern form of christianity en…