- Paperback: 232 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (April 11 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415290678
- ISBN-13: 978-0415290678
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,556,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Prague conference on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Open Society and its Enemies was both intellectually challenging and emotionally stirring, It is appropriate that it should be commemorated.
–George Soros
Karl Popper is surely the most celebrated of modern philosophers- literally. [This book] marks the fiftieth anniversary of his best known and most criticized work.
–Philosophy of the Social Sciences
The articles in the book make exciting reading...Readers who know Popper primarily through the philosophy of science will be especially enlightened as they read about this philosopher's concern with the very practical issues of politics and society.
–Essays in Philosophy
–George Soros
Karl Popper is surely the most celebrated of modern philosophers- literally. [This book] marks the fiftieth anniversary of his best known and most criticized work.
–Philosophy of the Social Sciences
The articles in the book make exciting reading...Readers who know Popper primarily through the philosophy of science will be especially enlightened as they read about this philosopher's concern with the very practical issues of politics and society.
–Essays in Philosophy
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Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years presents a coherent survey of the reception and influence of Karl Popper's masterpiece The Open Society and its Enemies over the fifty years since its publication in 1945, as well as applying some of its principles to the context of modern Eastern Europe.
This unique volume contains papers by many of Popper's contemporaries and friends, including such luminaries as Ernst Gombrich, in his paper 'The Open Society and its Enemies: Remembering its Publication Fifty Years Ago'.
This unique volume contains papers by many of Popper's contemporaries and friends, including such luminaries as Ernst Gombrich, in his paper 'The Open Society and its Enemies: Remembering its Publication Fifty Years Ago'.
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Humanitarianism is of fundamental importance, July 13 2005
By Luc REYNAERT - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years (Paperback)
This collection of papers presented at a Symposium held in Prague in 1995 contains also Karl Popper's last interview, where he expresses in a nutshell his vision on our world:'Churches, philosophers and politicians have failed, but I remain an optimist.'
'Our first task is peace, our second is to see that nobody be hungry, our third is fairly full employment and our fourth is education.'
About empiricism: the decisive point is not observation but expectation. Our expectations are biologically important.'
The papers themselves are a very worth-while read.
David Miller in 'Popper and Tarski': truth = correspondance with the facts
Sandra Pralong in 'Minima Moralia' gives an in depth analysis of the collaps of communism and the aftermath: 'The legacy of communism is not a moral tabula rasa, because communism was a system that encouraged immorality as a way to survive. The new circumstances of postcommunism (liberalism) are more likely to entrench the ethic in which the ends justify the means.'
Mark A. Notturno: In the 'Scientific Institution' the regulative idea of truth has almost be replaced by the regulative idea of power.
Bryan Magee in 'What use is Popper to a practical politician?':
The Popper approach constitutes a programme for practical and rational improvement, in other words 'reform'.
It is a fact that social evils have been perpetrated in our century on a simply stupendous scale. These things could not possibly have been done by people who had adopted 'Minimum avoidable suffering.'
Andrzej Flis in 'The Church as an enemy': (In Poland) the Church can take away our jobs, can harass us, can make the life of the most average family miserable.'
Joseph Agassi: Nationalism is group egoism.
More controversial is the paper of John A. Hall, who states among other things, that the basic instincts (food, shelter, sex) are very often the product of social influence.'?
This most interesting publication is a must read for all democrats.
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