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The Open Society and Its Enemies: The Promise and Peril of an Ideal Society | Citizenship Course, Season 8
Ideas that demand vigilance sometimes appear in the guise of truth
Completed · 21 episodes
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Yang Zhao: What Makes People “Voluntarily” Turn Away from Openness and Freedom? 1. After Two World Wars, How Do We Choose a Direction for Life? 2. Why Do Myths of Historical Law Keep Appearing? 3. Does the Search for a Single Ideal Society Begin by Identifying Its “Enemies”? 4. How Can We Debate Fairly with People from the Past Who Cannot Answer Back? 5. Why Do We Pursue Permanence in a World of Constant Change? 6. Was the Reality of Athens a History of Decline? 7. Why the Ideal State Cannot Exist: Distinguishing Knowledge from Opinion 8. What Platonic Prejudice Is Hidden in the Title of The Republic? 9. Can Living in a “Perfect World” Drive People Mad? 10. Did Plato’s Ideal State Exist at the Beginning—or Never Exist at All? 11. Why Does a Retrospectively Invented “Perfect State” Need Individuals While Claiming Not to Need Them? 12. Dispelling the Platonic Myth: Individualism Is Not Synonymous with Selfishness 13. What Do We Mean When We Talk About the “Philosopher-King”? 14. What Is a Philosopher: Someone Who Always Questions or Someone Who Always Has Answers? 15. Who Is Best Suited to Rule? That May Be the Wrong Question 16. Does Freedom in Practice Require State Intervention to Protect It? 17. If We Determine a Thing’s Essence, Can We Predict How It Will Change? 18. Is History a “Script”? The Fulfillment and Danger of Hegel’s Philosophy of History 19. Can an “All-Purpose” Dialectic Become an Accomplice in Opposing Freedom? 20. “Revolution” and the Enemies of the Open Society (Season Finale)