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082			_a320.01 POP 5th ed.
100			_aPopper, K.R.
245		0	_aOpen society and its enamies vol.1
250			_a5th ed.
260			_aLondon
260			_bRoutledge and Kegan Paul
260			_c1966
300			_a361 p.
502			_aVolume 1 : The spell of Plato
520			_aThe book is a critical introduction to the philosophy of politics and of history, and an examination of some of the principles of social reconstruction. Its aim and the line of approach are indicated in the Introduction. Even where it looks back into the past, its problems are the problems of our own time; and I have tried hard to state them as simply as I could, in the hope of clarifying matters which concern us all. Although the book presupposes nothing but open-mindedness in the reader, its object is not so much to popularize the questions treated as to solve them. In an attempt, however, to serve both of these purposes, I have confined all matters of more specialized interest to Notes which have been collected at the end of the book. In this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, author motive is not, Author hope, the wish to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men. Great men may make great mistakes; and as the book tries to show, some of the greatest leaders of the past supported the perennial attack on freedom and reason. Their influence, too rarely challenged, continues to mislead those on whose defence civilization depends, and to divide them. The responsibility for this tragic and possibly fatal division becomes ours if we hesitate to be outspoken in our criticism of what admittedly is a part of our intellectual heritage. By our reluctance to criticize some of it, we may help to destroy it all.
650			_aPolitical Science
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