Melissa Lane on Plato and Totalitarianism
By Edmonds and Warburton
16/03/08ยท18m 40s
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.