Karl Popper’s authoritarian social technologies
Karl Popper is known for his influential contributions to the philosophy of science and critical rationalism. Unfortunately, his attempt to apply critical rationalism to political philosophy produced writings of a more impatient and dubious nature. For example, in 1960 Popper wrote: ..the empiricist’s questions ‘How do you know? What is the source of your assertion?’ [...]
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