1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 *Mild spoilers for season two of House of Cards in this episode* Welcome to part three of a four part series on the book The Open Society And Its Enemies by Karl Popper. If you haven't listened to the first two parts yet I would highly recommend that you do, as the book builds through the parts and I will make references in todays episode that will have more context if you are familiar with the previous two episodes. In part three, I discuss Popper's take on how Aristotle and Hegel have intellectually contributed to the closed society ethos; and also begin with how Marx did. In this episode I discuss: - Teleology and its application to the forms from Plato - that it is process driven Essentialism, and that there is in fact no such thing as static reality. - Competing arguments is how we live and it is necessarily so - Hegel as a politically useful philosopher - he had ability to use language to his own ends. His contribution was beginning our sense of Nationalism in the modern sense, and how that always needs an enemy. - Heroism as only being as good as the cause for which one is a hero in - The &quot;ya but how&quot; heuristic - How economies and ideas are a two way street - How economic power is dependent on political and physical power. Thanks again for listening, have a great day! Really True Fiction http://reallytruefiction.libsyn.com/website <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/19886660/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/107771135