Popper’s criticism is, iirc, drawn mainly from Plato’s Republic. But Popper somehow managed to read a deeply ironic and subtle text as a recipe for tyranny. Eg there are numerous points where Socrates makes obviously bad arguments which others call out, and Socrates just hand waves them away. Numerous critics and philosophers have made this observation, the most ready to hand example I can find is here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/may/10/empty-...
It is a simple, massive, and all too common blunder of interpretation to read the Republic the way Popper does.
Re:Popper’s Plato
by robot9000 on Friday March 25, 2022 @07:33AM
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He criticizes Plato's idea of philosopher kings, saying it was likely motivated in part by self interest, but are we supposed to believe that, as a Jew, the idea of an open society was not also out of self-interest?
Re:Popper’s Plato
by ur-whale on Friday March 25, 2022 @09:55AM
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Given the wast numbers of literal thinkers that grace the face of this planet, using irony as a tool to get your point across is almost always a bad idea.
It is a simple, massive, and all too common blunder of interpretation to read the Republic the way Popper does.