9c301415bf 2 vols. The key texts for Poppers political thought are The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) and The Poverty of Historicism (1944/45). He made several arguments in favor of this view. Play. The productive power unleashed by new technologies and factory production under capitalism was ultimately incompatible with capitalism as an economic and political system, which was marked by inefficiency, instability and injustice. Popper: Philosophy, Politics and Scientific Method. But such prediction is not possible, Popper said.
Together they formed the philosophical substrate of what Popper called the closed society. b. Findlay suggested the book's ultimate title after three others had been discarded. Argues that we need to consider Poppers political values to understand the unity of his philosophy. Just as a meteorologist can forecast the weather, but not alter it, the same holds for social scientists, historicists believe. But the main contribution of his political philosophy was towards the defence of the widely shared liberal commitments of the open society, within which more specific policy prescriptions may be worked out through trial and error.Jeremy Shearmur Australian National University More from this issue More by this contributor . Social systems can never be isolated and stationary, however. Scholarly reception[edit]. The case for Poppers libertarianism rests mainly on his emphasis on freedom and his hostility to large-scale central planning.
Talavalee replied
487 weeks ago