Hi,

I've recently discovered this site and I think it's superb. I've been reading philosophy for a few years now, and some of it is beginning to make sense. I read the two volumes of Karl Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies a while ago and I'd like to ask anybody who might be interested a couple of things. Does anybody agree with Popper's attack on Plato - an attack that boils down to claiming that Plato set out the blueprint for totalitarianism? If not, has anyone any thoughts on Popper's motivations for attacking Plato in this way? Does anybody think that the attack is grossly unfair? I don't know enough about Plato or Popper to draw anything like a satisfactory conclusion, so I'd be very interested to know what other people think.

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