Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher of science and political philosopher best known for developing critical rationalism and the criterion of falsifiability for scientific theories; author of The Logic of Scientific Discovery and The Open Society and Its Enemies.
Books
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1. The Open Society And Its Enemies, Volume One
The Spell of Plato
A rigorous critique of ancient political thought that traces how the search for a perfect, timeless social order leads to authoritarian prescriptions, arguing that Plato’s defense of philosopher-rulers, rigid social hierarchies, and the subordination of individuals to a collective ideal lays intellectual groundwork for totalitarianism; the work attacks the notion that history unfolds by deterministic laws and defends critical, incremental reform and individual freedom against sweeping utopian engineering.
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