"We aren't aiming to make any one group outstandingly happy but to make the whole city so, as far as possible" (Plato, The Republic, IV, 420b).
Is Utopia always a matter of privileging "the needs of the many" over "the needs of the few (or the one)"? Is it always a matter of communities, rather than individuals?
If so, living as we do in a culture that remains firmly focused on individual rights, responsibilities, and fulfillment, can/will Utopia ever really seem attractive to us?
(re-post from 2013)
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