According to the Dutch philosopher Marius de Geus, ecological utopias could be inspirational sources for movements involving green politics. As a reader one does not doubt that the events took place but at the same time it is a very special year for such a large number of deals to have completed and the various personal lives to have turned out the way they did. p>

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The fictional aliens in Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed start out as gender-neutral children and do not develop into men and women until puberty and gender has no bearing on social roles.The golden citizens are trained in a rigorous 50-year-long educational program to be benign oligarchs, the "philosopher-kings. We find utopian beliefs in the oldest religious imaginations, appear regularly in the neighborhood of ancient, yet pre-philosophical views on the causes and meaning of natural events, the purpose of creation, the path of good and evil, happiness and misfortune, fairy tales and legends later inspired by poetry and philosophy .

People all over the world organized and built intentional communities with the hope of developing a better way of living together. Opposing this optimism is the prediction that advanced science and technology will, through deliberate misuse or accident, cause environmental damage or even humanity's extinction.In a materialist utopian society, the economy is perfect; there is no inflation and only perfect social and financial equality exists. every social organization relies on something that is not realized or feasible, but has the ideal that is somewhere beyond the horizon, a lighthouse to which it may seek to approach if it considers that ideal socially valid and generally accepted. With stout walls, a stone temple and good harbours, it is perhaps the ‘ideal’ Greek colony, a model for those founded from the middle of the 8th C onward. Finally how the book is being marketed is as if the agents are serving the extremely wealthy rich and famous. According to the Philosophical Dictionary, proto-utopian ideas begin as early as the period of ancient Greece and Rome, medieval heretics, peasant revolts and establish themselves in the period of the early capitalism, reformation and Renaissance ( Hus, Müntzer, More, Campanella), democratic revolutions ( Meslier, Morelly, Mably, Winstanley, later Babeufists, Blanquists,) and in a period of turbulent development of capitalism that highlighted antagonisms of capitalist society ( Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen, Cabet, Lamennais, Proudhon and their followers).

Perhaps the oldest Utopia of which we know, as pointed out many years ago by Moses Finley, [36] is Homer’s Scheria, island of the Phaeacians. PERNÝ, Lukáš: Utopians, Visionaries of the World of the Future (The History of Utopias and Utopianism), Martin: Matica slovenská, 2020, p.A mythical place, often equated with classical Corcyra, (modern Corfu/ Kerkyra), where Odysseus was washed ashore after 10 years of storm-tossed wandering and escorted to the King’s palace by his daughter Nausicaa. The back-to-the-land movements and hippies inspired many to try to live in peace and harmony on farms or in remote areas and to set up new types of governance. Some theological philosophers believe that heaven will not be a physical realm but instead an incorporeal place for souls.