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1. The Closing of The Open Society.

Author

Whidden, Christopher

Subjects
*REPUBLICS, *LIBERALISM, *POLITICAL science, *SOCIAL sciences
Abstract

This paper provides an assessment of Karl Popper’s controversial interpretation of Plato’s Republic in The Open Society and Its Enemies. Contrary to positions that have recently resurfaced in the literature, I argue that his interpretations of the Republic and liberalism are problematic on many counts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2004

2. Xenophon's Cyropaedia and the Nature of Spiritedness.

Author

Whidden, Christopher

Subjects
*AMBITION, *MOTIVATION (Psychology), *LEVEL of aspiration, *POLITICAL science
Abstract

Cyrus, as the spirited individual par excellence, reveals the contradictory nature of spiritedness, insofar as his spirited ambition for empire compels him to attempt do away with the us/them distinction, without which spiritedness cannot survive. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2006

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