Karl Popper's lecture A New Interpretation of Darwinism given at the Royal Society London in 1986 is here printed for the first time in the original. In it, Popper denies the creative power of blind chance and natural selection. Instead of these two Darwinian dogmas he establishes knowledge and activity of all organisms as the creative driving forces of evolution. Hans-Joachim Niemann unearths biographical details about the year 1936 when Popper's biological thoughts were inspired by a meeting with some scientists of the avant-garde of molecular biology. He then focusses on the year 1986 when...

English summary: This volume provides an overview of many schools of thought which were established or influenced by Karl Popper, including the theory of the social sciences that successfully uses his "principle of rationality," his standards of science as a kind of primer for all future universities, as well as his cultural criticism which destroyed both the "myth of the framework" and the flourishing culture of untruth. It also defines his overcoming of materialism in physics and philosophy along with his new theory of evolution which gained foothold in biology only years after his death....

Fallende Groschen soll man nicht aufhalten, Mehrheit schutzt vor Dummheit nicht, Jeder Krieg ist ein Bruderkrieg, Es gibt nur zwei Rassen: die Rassisten und die anderen. Die 120 in diesem Buchlein enthaltenen Aphorismen, Lebensweisheiten und Bonmots bedurfen keiner weiteren Erklarung oder Einfuhrung. Sie sind die Spane philosophischer Hobelarbeit, die der Philosoph H. J. Niemann wahrend der Arbeit an seinen Buchern, Ubersetzungen und Buch-Editionen gesammelt und fur philosophisch Interessierte zusammengestellt hat, die die Lust an Spott und Kritik, Scherz und Satire mit tieferer Bedeutung in...