La società aperta e i suoi nemici

Have you wondered what Plato was all about or had trouble reading through his lengthy works? Get this wonderful book where an outstanding author does the hard work for you, then lays out the gist of Plato's thoughts in clear, easily and quickly readable prose. Behind our societies lie influential ide Leggi tutto

Popper's Open Society and its Enemies is devoted to a crushing polemic against Platonism. Plato's Republic is described as a detailed defense of what Popper calls "Closed Society", which is taken to be totalitarian in all its forms. Platonism is hard to summarize concisely, but roughly amounts to an Leggi tutto

به حال افلاطون رقت می‌آرم که مجبور شد به جای تاسیسِ نخستین حکومتِ تمام‌توتالیترِ فلسفی، به تاسیسِ نخستین کرسیِ تدریس فلسفه قناعت کنه.

An incredible work on Plato yielding one of the most important interpretations of his philosophy of all time. We tend to idealize the great Athenian philosopher but Karl Popper, a philosopher of science, sets the record straight with this scathing indictment of his philosophy and its cruel implicati Leggi tutto

Popper's anti-Platonist tract is slander from start to finish; the book that inspired Ronald Levinson to write a 645 page rebuttal ( In Defense of Plato ). In much of Popper's writing he is a fitting follower of Sextus Empiricus, but here, in a perhaps-understandable post-Hitler and post-Stalin rage, Leggi tutto

This is one of the most important books written in the 20th century, taken with its second volume - a searching analysis of the modes of thinking of "development" that takes in Plato, Hegel, and Marx. The best edition is this one, that keeps more detailed analysis in wee tiny print in appendices - b Leggi tutto

ينتقد كارل بوبر في كتابه " المجتمع المفتوح وأعداؤه - الجزء الأول ) نظريات الفيلسوف أفلاطون السياسية ، حيث يوضح موقف أفلاطون من الديموقراطية .. ورغم نقد أفلاطون للإستبداد السياسي إلا أن بوبر وصف برنامج أفلاطون السياسي بالأستبداد الخالص .. ويقول بوبر " غالباً ما تدعي النزعة الإستبدادية حبها للحرية " ا Leggi tutto

Popper severely criticizes Plato for his totalitarianism. The Republic, the Laws, and the Statesman are designed to put a divine system in this world. Except for the Philosopher-King, whose job it was to provide vision-order-stability, Plato shuts down reason for others. Everyone has a place. For mo Leggi tutto