In the book, Popper condemned Plato, Marx, and Hegel as 'holists' and 'historicists'-a holist, according to Popper, believes that individuals are formed entirely by their social groups historicists believe that social groups evolve according to internal principles that it is the intellectual's. Such complementary elements converged in sustained anti-Platonic polemics, which in turn provoked a vigorous defence. The Open Society and Its Enemies is a work on political philosophy by the philosopher Karl Popper, in which the author presents a 'defence of the open society against its enemies', and offers a critique of theories of teleological historicism, according to which history unfolds inexorably according to universal laws. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result. The general anguish and humanistic anxiety on the eve ofWorldWar II and the postwar traumas led scholars to reconsider the meaning of history and historicism, the psychology of the masses and the ethical responsibility of the citizen, the role of propaganda and state education.
But a lot of other causes worked to the same effect. One of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Ideologically, the appropriation of Plato by Nazi apologists fostered further this vehement indictment. The institution that propelled and sustained the open society, Popper believed, was modern science. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. By multiplying knowledge, it sought to adapt to a changing world and improve the conditions of life. 2: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath by Popper, Karl R. Philosophically, it was a reaction to the undisguised Platonolatry coming from Oxford and the school of the British Idealists. In The Open Society and Its Enemies, the great philosopher Karl Popper posited two general types of communities.
Such an extensive assault led the ‘Platonic Legend’ to an unprecedented crisis. One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual. From the early 1930s to the early 1960s many scholars, whether liberal minded or socialist ideologues, Marxist or scientific positivists, classical scholars or political theorists and historians, have shown a widespread consensus in discrediting and assailing the man and political philosopher Plato.
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