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“Plato was an enemy of the open society.” (Popper) Comment.

  • UPSC 2015
  • 20 marks
  • Western Political Thought

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Karl Raimund Popper wrote The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) in New Zealand exile during the Second World War. Its first volume, The Spell of Plato, opens a lineage of historicist enemies that runs on to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx. The charge is that the Republic supplies the blueprint of a…

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  • The Open and the Closed Society
  • The Indictment
  • The Case for the Defence
  • The Indian Choice
  • Conclusion
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