{"id":194,"date":"2013-12-03T17:32:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T17:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=194"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:05:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T21:05:35","slug":"the-open-society-as-an-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/the-open-society-as-an-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open Society as an Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jason McKenzie Alexander<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Listen to the recording <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/newsAndMedia\/videoAndAudio\/channels\/publicLecturesAndEvents\/player.aspx?id=2155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1945, Karl Popper published his defence of liberal democracy in\u00a0<em>The Open Society and Its Enemies<\/em>. Now, more than seventy years later, we find ourselves living in a time when an unprecedented amount of information about our lives is made public, as well as held by private and governmental organisations.\u00a0Jason McKenzie Alexander\u00a0argues that such openness and transparency, instead of supporting the foundations of liberal democracy, in fact undermines it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/philosophy\/WhosWho\/staffhomepages\/alexander.aspx\">Jason McKenzie Alexander<\/a>, Professor of Philosophy, LSE<\/p>\n<p>Recorded on\u00a03 December 2013 at the LSE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason McKenzie Alexander<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":8865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[76,44,101,20,102],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-democracy","tag-freedom","tag-information","tag-politicalphilosophy","tag-popper"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2016\/10\/dem3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-38","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9656,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/9656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}