In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years

ISBN-13: 9780415135481 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str.

Karl Popper

Opis

After a life of 90 years Sir Karl Popper can look back on positive changes in the world - the vast reductions in mass poverty, the liberalization of penal systems, the defeat of dictatorships. The essays and lectures collected in this book chart aspects of thinking, from his interest in the birth of scientific speculation in classical Greece to the destructive effects on the intellect of totalitarianism in 20th-century states. His discussions range over problems of politics, the history of philosophy, the great figures of the Enlightenment such as Voltaire and Kant, and the relation of science and art.

Recenzje

'It offers us a chance to renew our acquaintance with this veteran philosopher and to learn some new things.' - Jim Baggott, New Scientist

'Each of these essays speaks out in Popper's firm, clear, unambiguous voice ... they are very readable and persuasive on important issues.' - Nature

Spis treści

Part 1 On Knowledge; Chapter 1 Knowledge and the Shaping of Reality; Chapter 2 On Knowledge and Ignorance; Chapter 3 On the So-Called Sources of Knowledge; Chapter 4 Science and Criticism; Chapter 5 The Logic of the Social Sciences; Chapter 6 Against Big Words; Part 2 On History; Chapter 7 Books and Thoughts; Chapter 8 On Culture Clash; Chapter 9 Immanuel Kant: The Philosopher of the Enlightenment; Chapter 10 Emancipation through Knowledge; Chapter 11 Public Opinion and Liberal Principles; Chapter 12 An Objective Theory of Historical Understanding; Part 3 Von Den Neuesten … Zusammengestohlen Aus Verschiedenem, Diesem Und Jenen*This title is stolen. It comes from a remark written by Beethoven on the manuscript of a string quartet: ‘viertes Quartett, von den Neuesten, fur 2 Violinen, Bratsche und Violincell. Zusammengestohlen aus Verschiedenem, Diesem und Jenen.’ An approximate translation of Beethoven's untranslatable playful remark would be: ‘Fourth quartet, for 2 violins, viola and cello, pinched from the latest compositions – from the most various ones, from these and from those ….’; Chapter 13 How I see Philosophy; Chapter 14 Toleration and Intellectual Responsibility; Chapter 15 What Does the West Believe in?; Chapter 16 Creative Self-Criticism in Science and in Art;

O autorze

Karl Popper