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Comment: “Western thought, one might say, has been either platonic or anti-platonic but hardly ever non – platonic.” (Popper)

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  • Western Political Thought

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The remark comes from Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), in its first volume, The Spell of Plato, immediately after the admission that the influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. It echoes Alfred North Whitehead's view (Process and Reality, 1929) that European philosophy is a series of footnotes…

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  • Why Plato Set the Terms
  • The Platonic and Anti-Platonic Lines
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