In the canon
The Open Society and Its Enemies
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 1945
- Pages
- Pages 760
A philosopher in the Second World War blames Plato, Hegel and Marx for feeding totalitarian thought, and argues any plan to remake society to one blueprint ends in tyranny, so a free society must stay open and self-correcting.
The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.
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