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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Karl Popper
• E. H. Gombrich

Titel

THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES

Ist Teil von

• The Open Society and Its Enemies, 2020, p.161

Ort / Verlag

Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

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• There is still something missing from our analysis. The contention that Plato’s political programme is purely totalitarian, and the objections to this contention which were raised in chapter 6, have led us to examine the part played, within this programme, by such moral ideas as Justice, Wisdom, Truth, and Beauty. The result of this examination was always the same. We found that the rôle of these ideas is important, but that they do not lead Plato beyond totalitarianism and racialism. But one of these ideas we have still to examine: that of Happiness. It may be remembered that we quoted