Change in the Perception of Utopia (original) (raw)

The word utopia derives from the Greek words topos (place) and eu (good) and ou (not). (Reiner, 1963: 16) In Roger L. Emerson (1973), for the word utopia, eutopia and outopia, respectively, meaning, good place (no place), which means that two words derived from the Greek. The uncertainty between Eutopie (out of place) and outopia (out of place) is probably defined as available social systems and sometimes fantasies of perfection that are desired but not achieved. The derived word "utopia" was first used as a Greek term in the literary work De Optima Reipublicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia, written by the English writer Thomas More in 1516. Thomas More used the term "utopia" to derive from the roots " u " and " topos" meaning nonexistent in Greek. The term "utopos" is an island that stands between reality and the imaginary plane. Krishan Kumar (2005) states that utopia is both nowhere and a good place(eutopia). However, the first example of utopia in the sense that Thomas More had no place in the British island to imagine, in other words, a product of his imagination, was Plato's State, which is considered a political utopia. It describes the ideal state in the State, and the concept of dystopia is a concept against utopia.