Abstract
Renaissance “humanism”, as it has been called, was fundamentally, although not exclusively, an educational movement, inasmuch as its main goal consisted in the development of the humanitas through the cultivation of the studia humanitatis adopting the classical authors as a model. In this sense, the purpose of this article is to present Thomas More's main ideas on education as they appear, above all, in his celebrated work Utopia (1516), and to do so by situating them within the framework of his ascription to the humanist movement. To do this, I will first delve into some aspects of More's thought on which interpreters have especially insisted and which maintain a direct dependence on Erasmus's pedagogical ideas. Then, I will try to elaborate on three major directions in which our author goes beyond the approach of the rest of the humanists, in a manner that does not depart from or modify the humanist project, but rather tries to radically assume its fundamental postulates.
Keywords:
humanism; education; Utopia; More; Erasmus