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Rafe Champion
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A Guide to The Open Society and its Enemies (The Popular Popper Book 3)
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2013
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2 editions
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A Guide to The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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2013
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A Guide to Conjectures and Refutations (The Popular Popper Book 4)
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2013
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A Guide to Objective Knowledge (The Popular Popper Book 5)
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2013
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A Guide to The Poverty of Historicism (The Popular Popper Book 2)
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2013
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Jacques Barzun and Others (Critical Rationalist Papers Book 1)
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2013
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Popper: The Champion Guides
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Some Aspects of the Duhem Problem
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2013
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Popper and the Austrian School of Economics
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2013
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Commentary on Hayek
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2013
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“In Popper's opinion, the program can be fairly described as totalitarian. He noted some objections to that verdict, such as Plato's desire for Goodness and Beauty, and his love of Wisdom and Truth, and the idea that the wise should rule, rather than the strong or a hereditary monarch. And above all is the idea that the state should be founded upon Justice. These objections reflect the tendency to interpret Plato in the best possible light, even on the part of writers who were clearly aware of the totalitarian tendencies in his thinking. Popper defended equalitarian justice by which he meant equality before non-discriminatory laws and an equal distribution of the limitations on freedom that are required for a functional society.”
― Popper: The Champion Guides
― Popper: The Champion Guides
“The piecemeal reformer will seek to address the most urgent evils of society instead of aiming to achieve the greatest ultimate good, and this may look like a verbal quibble but Popper argued that it is the difference between a reasonable method of improving the lot of man, and a method which may easily lead to an intolerable increase in human suffering.
The case for utopian engineering runs like this: to act rationally we need to have an aim (an end), and then actions can be classified as rational if they are consistent with that end. By this logic, political actions are rational if they pursue the final end that has been set for the reform of the state. In that way, actions are driven by our ultimate political ends.”
― Popper: The Champion Guides
The case for utopian engineering runs like this: to act rationally we need to have an aim (an end), and then actions can be classified as rational if they are consistent with that end. By this logic, political actions are rational if they pursue the final end that has been set for the reform of the state. In that way, actions are driven by our ultimate political ends.”
― Popper: The Champion Guides
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