Thomas More believed in private and corporate vocations. His beliefs are evident in his book Utopia. He said that everybody has a vocation and it is their responsibility to live up to what gifts they have been given by God. Private vocations exist with the individual person. Married, single, or religious life? Also, what kind of job one does is considered a vocation because you must use your God given gifts to perform your job correctly. Corporate vocations exist within the community and what kind of society exists. In Utopia, a perfect society exists in which everybody has a vocation that creates a corporate vocation making a perfect society. Utopia means “no place.” This meaning can be easily comprehended because there is no such thing as a perfect society. So it wouldn’t exist anywhere, no place. In Thomas More’s utopian society, everyone has a purpose to add to the community’s vocation, which is how the private and corporate vocations are linked together. Also in this utopian society, people live together in harmony. This is because every person needs the next person to survive.Everyone has a religion, but beyond that they can do what they want. Whether it is a farmer like most people, married, single, or a religious person. It’s hard to say whether or not every person would take his or her religion to the same extent as the other, but they all have a religion that keeps the peace between the people.Thomas More sees physical labor as very important. Not only to survive, but so that everyone contributes to society. Idleness can be a disease. There must be a balance to work. Everybody in Utopia does some farming. Farming was considered a very noble occupation back then. Today we have many noble occupations, but just to pick one to compare a doctor can be used. Obviously, they didn’t have all the technology we have today, so they didn’t have as many occupations as w...
