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Friday
Feb252022

The Open Society and its Enemies

DateFri 2022-02-25

Philosophize This! has a rather timely talk on Karl Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies.  In that book Popper, among other things, explained why authoritarian governments are bad: they make mistakes which would be quickly corrected in a democracy.

You can listen to the talk at various places:

However, you probably don't want to go to philosophizethis.org itself because the links there are implemented in Javascript and seem to be broken.

AuthorTristram Brelstaff | CommentPost a Comment |

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