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Melissa Lane on Plato and Totalitarianism

Melissa Lane on Plato and Totalitarianism

Philosophy Bites · Nigel Warburton

March 16, 200818m 40s

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Show Notes

Was Plato's ideal state a totalitarian one? Karl Popper, thought so, and made his case in The Open Society and Its Enemies. Melissa Lane, author of Plato's Progeny, reassesses Popper's critique of Plato in this episode of Philosophy Bites.