The Open Society and Its Enemies is a work on political philosophy by the philosopher Karl Popper, in which the author presents a defence of the open society against its enemies, and offers a critique
Dust jacket of volume I of the first edition with the variant "The Age of Plato" instead of "The Spell of Plato"
Paradox of tolerance
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The paradox of tolerance is a philosophical concept suggesting that if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance, thereby undermi
The Open Society and Its Enemies
…Plato and Marx that support the assertions made in the main body. One endnote that became very popular was note 4 to chapter 7, since it defines the paradox of tolerance, the idea that "unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if…
Karl Popper wrote on tolerance of intolerance in Vol. 1 of The Open Society and Its Enemies, published in 1945.
Personification of Tolerance, a statue displayed in Lužánky park in Brno, Czech Republic