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Jul 28, 1902 — Sep 17, 1994· 92 yrs

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Karl Popper

Also known as: Karl R. Popper, Karl Raimund Popper

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Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator.

Vienna, Cisleithania
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Two things, says Kant near the end of his Critique of Practical Reason, fill his mind with always new and increasing admiration and respect: the starry heavens above him, and the moral law within him.

— from The self and its brain, 1977

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The Logic of Scientific Discovery

1935

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When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth century.

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The self and its brain

1977

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The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2)

1945

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An open society provides its citizens with a mechanism for changing government; a closed society doesn't, forcing its citizens to rely on extra-legal revolution. Popper analyzes the open-closed society debate using three exemplars of closed-society advocacy: Plato, Hegel (and wow, does Popper hate on Hegel), and Marx. The main analytical viewpoints are historicist (backward-looking, utopian) motivations for closed societies and rational (forward-looking, empirical) motivations for open societies.

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