"I am shocked by the idea that there are still people who take seriously Popper's analysis of Plato – “that bitter enemy of freedom”, as Marcello Pera uncritically describes him – without questioning the texts, checking the quotations or comparing them. These are elementary operations. Today, these may be unknown to most people, but they cannot escape the attention of a scholar who aspires to this role or who remembers them."
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Antonio Gnoli, Il tiranno inesistente, la Repubblica, 23 August 2002
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Giovanni Reale
1931 – 2004
Giovanni Reale (1931-2004) was an Italian historian of philosophy.
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