In the 1940s it was still possible to believe in childish innocence. The mind of a particular child formed, up to the age of reason, in a time of war, is liable to be ready to ask questions of a particular kind about the human condition � still more so, when, at the age of eight, that child sees, on the front-page of the newspaper, images of Belsen and Hiroshima, images that would never be forgotten. Has History any Meaning? Addenda (1961, 1965) NOTES Notes to Volume 1 Notes to Volume 2 IndexĪ book can change a mind, but only if that mind is ready to be changed. Oracular Philosophy and the Revolt against Reason CONCLUSION 25. The Moral Theory of Historicism THE AFTERMATH 23.

The Legal and the Social System MARX'S PROPHECY 18. Hegel and The New Tribalism MARX'S METHOD 13. The Aristotelian Roots of Hegelianism 12. The Open Society and its Enemies Addenda VOLUME 2: THE HIGH TIDE OF PROPHECY THE RISE OF ORACULAR PHILOSOPHY 11. Aestheticism, Perfectionism, Utopianism THE BACKGROUND OF PLATO'S ATTACK 10. Nature and Convention PLATO'S POLITICAL PROGRAMME 6.

Plato's Theory of Forms or Ideas PLATO'S DESCRIPTIVE SOCIOLOGY 4. Acknowledgements Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Introduction VOLUME 1: THE SPELL OF PLATO THE MYTH OF ORIGIN AND DESTINY 1. 'Personal Recollections of the Publication of The Open Society' by E.H. Foreword Preface: 'Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies in the contemporary global world' by Vaclav Havel.

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