ABSTRACT
In a famous passage from Laws, Plato says that ‘change […] is always highly perilous’.1 However, as we have tried to point out from the very first chapter, a society is open because it is open to change or, to be more precise, because it is the institutionalization of change. This occurs primarily through the renunciation of the ‘privileged point of view on the world’, of the fundamentum inconcussum.
