Celebrating 'The Open Society.'(need for Karl Popper's 'The Open Society' to be more fully appreciated)
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There is a need for Karl Popper's 'The Open Society' to be more fully appreciated. Popper emphasized the need for openness and debate, and he was a supporter of democracy. Openness goes beyond toleration and represents an invitation to criticize. Political regimes improve if they permit criticism and the possibility of reform. Popper mixed virtue and erudition. He was the first to set out critical rationalism and his work has had a major influence on democratic politics.
Publication Name: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-3931
Year: 1997
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What collapse, exactly?
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Hilary Putnam's collection of essays is based on values and their rationality and inescapable and welcome intrusion into every kind of discourse. The book though pleasant to read is often unclear because in almost every discussion the author announces one item while discussing another which is almost identical and much easier to discuss raising the uneasy feeling that the relevance of the one thing to the other is obvious but how exactly is a mystery.
Publication Name: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-3931
Year: 2007
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Slaves in Plato's Laws
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The article attempts to present Plato's attitude towards slaves through his posthumous literary work 'Laws'.
Publication Name: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-3931
Year: 2007
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