Thomas More wrote his book Utopia in the 16(superscript th) Century and created the special meanings of this word ”utopia” to be ”a nice place” and ”nowhere”. What he did enriched the developments of utopian thought in Western World. Different people have catched parts of Mores ideas for building their own imaginations about utopia. Some of them had the hope to improve the social situations by utopian thought. In 17(superscript th) and at the beginning of 18(superscript th) Century, the writers wrote utopian literary works to describe the ”good places”, so that they might be comforted although they did not have such a nice place in the real world. In 18(superscript th) Century, the ”Island Literature” denied there should be a good place existing. They tended to build a new world by themselves instead of believing that God will give them one. In 19(superscript th) Century, utopian thought emphasized the social aspect. Whether utopias exist or not, was not their main point. How to give their critics for improving their society was the most important value of utopian thought. As to 20(superscript th) Century, the utopian researchers treated utopia as a kind of existence order. The ”utopian consciousness” is pushed by the innovation and change of utopian order. All of those utopian thinking indicate that utopias do not only exist, but also close to our world. Utopian thought shows the hope of human beings about life. But, how has the More's Ideas about Utopia been dealt with under different culture system. In this article, Ⅰ will focus on exploring the developments of German utopian ideas and literatures which are derived from More's Utopia.
