The Spell of Plato
E347724
The Spell of Plato is the first volume of Karl Popper’s critique of totalitarianism, focusing on his analysis of Plato’s political philosophy and its anti-democratic implications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Spell of Plato canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3304564 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: The Spell of Plato Context triple: [The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume 1, subtitle, The Spell of Plato]
-
A.
On the Gods
On the Gods is a lost work of ancient scholarship by Apollodorus of Athens that likely examined Greek religious beliefs and deities.
-
B.
Plato; or, the Philosopher
"Plato; or, the Philosopher" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his collection "Representative Men," in which he interprets and evaluates the life, ideas, and enduring influence of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
-
C.
Plato's Alcibiades II
Plato's Alcibiades II is a Socratic dialogue, traditionally attributed to Plato, in which Socrates advises the ambitious Athenian statesman Alcibiades on the nature of prayer, piety, and self-knowledge.
-
D.
Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher
Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher is a philosophical dialogue by George Berkeley that critiques freethinkers and defends Christian religion and immaterialist philosophy.
-
E.
Twilight of the Idols
"Twilight of the Idols" is a late philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche in which he sharply critiques traditional morality, religion, and German culture in a concise, aphoristic style.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The Spell of Plato Target entity description: The Spell of Plato is the first volume of Karl Popper’s critique of totalitarianism, focusing on his analysis of Plato’s political philosophy and its anti-democratic implications.
-
A.
On the Gods
On the Gods is a lost work of ancient scholarship by Apollodorus of Athens that likely examined Greek religious beliefs and deities.
-
B.
Plato; or, the Philosopher
"Plato; or, the Philosopher" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his collection "Representative Men," in which he interprets and evaluates the life, ideas, and enduring influence of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
-
C.
Plato's Alcibiades II
Plato's Alcibiades II is a Socratic dialogue, traditionally attributed to Plato, in which Socrates advises the ambitious Athenian statesman Alcibiades on the nature of prayer, piety, and self-knowledge.
-
D.
Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher
Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher is a philosophical dialogue by George Berkeley that critiques freethinkers and defends Christian religion and immaterialist philosophy.
-
E.
Twilight of the Idols
"Twilight of the Idols" is a late philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche in which he sharply critiques traditional morality, religion, and German culture in a concise, aphoristic style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
philosophical work ⓘ |
| argues |
Plato's ideal state is anti-democratic
ⓘ
Plato's political theory supports totalitarian structures ⓘ philosopher-kings concept is dangerous to democracy ⓘ |
| author | Karl Popper ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticizes |
Plato's political philosophy
ⓘ
totalitarian tendencies in classical philosophy ⓘ |
| critiquesWork |
The Laws
ⓘ
Plato's Republic ⓘ
surface form:
The Republic
|
| followedBy | The High Tide of Prophecy ⓘ |
| genre |
philosophy of politics
ⓘ
political philosophy ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
anti-totalitarianism
ⓘ
defense of open society ⓘ liberalism ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
critique of utopian social engineering
ⓘ
individual freedom ⓘ open society versus closed society ⓘ role of philosophy in politics ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
World War II context
ⓘ
rise of totalitarian regimes in the 20th century ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Plato
ⓘ
critique of collectivism ⓘ critique of historicism ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ totalitarianism ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
Plato as a precursor of totalitarianism
ⓘ
defense of critical rationalism in politics ⓘ |
| partOf | The Open Society and Its Enemies ⓘ |
| positionInSeries | first volume ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Routledge & Kegan Paul
ⓘ
surface form:
Routledge
|
| relatedWork |
The Open Society and Its Enemies
ⓘ
The Poverty of Historicism ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general educated readers interested in politics
ⓘ
students of philosophy ⓘ students of political theory ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: The Spell of Plato Description of subject: The Spell of Plato is the first volume of Karl Popper’s critique of totalitarianism, focusing on his analysis of Plato’s political philosophy and its anti-democratic implications.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.