{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep. 15 - The Open Society And Its Enemies Pt. 3","description":"*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 "ya but how" 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! ","author_name":"Really True Fiction","author_url":"http:\/\/reallytruefiction.libsyn.com\/website","html":"