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Sir Thomas More PC (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, [2] was an English lawyer, judge, [3] social philosopher, author, statesman, amateur theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. [4] He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. [5]
Dec 4, 2008 · St. Thomas More’s star has risen and fallen in unusual ways over the years. Hailed in his lifetime as one of the great humanists of the age, he died with almost all of his friends and family accusing him of pointless pertinacity. Though his books were widely read and his integrity respected by even his enemies, it would take another four ...
Jun 8, 2009 · Athens, it is argued, rid itself of one of its greatest thinkers because he was a perceived threat to the political status quo. But in a new study launched today (Monday, June 8th), Cambridge University classicist Professor Paul Cartledge claims that, rather than being a farce, Socrates’ trial was legally just and that he was guilty as charged.
Aug 21, 2006 · To bring this to a close, because we are running out of time, consider what recent history has actually shown about the life of Thomas More: in the 1970s, More was exonerated by the Parliament that brought about his death; in 1999 he was voted lawyer of the millennium by the Law Society of his own country; and in 2000 he was declared by Pope John Paul II ‘Patron of Statesmen’ at the ...
Oct 16, 2021 · Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527 “I die the King’s good servant, and God’s first.” These words were uttered by Sir Thomas More on July 1, 1535, before his sentencing for treason. It had taken the jury only 15 minutes of deliberation to bring a verdict of “guilty”. More was sentenced to be drawn and quartered at Tyburn, but his sentence was commuted by King Henry ...
Nov 15, 2023 · Thomas More (1478–1535), as the young “man for all seasons” first so called by Erasmus (9 June 1510 letter to More [EW 271.27] and c. September 1521 letter to Guillaume Budé [EW 1376.9]), has been recognized as one of the foremost early modern humanists in England, particularly in view of his well-known Utopia and his History of King ...
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In the end, the sentence of death was passed by a greater majority of the jury than that by which he had been convicted. In the event, friends, followers, and students encouraged Socrates to flee Athens, an action which the citizens expected; yet, on principle, Socrates refused to flout the law and escape his legal responsibility to Athens (see: Crito ).
