Karl Popper · Philosophy
Popper’s political philosophy: reject the ancient question ‘who should rule?’ and its dream of wise philosopher-kings, and ask instead how to build institutions that let us remove bad rulers without bloodshed - and how to improve society by piecemeal reform rather than by imposing a utopian blueprint.
You learned that Popper distinguished the ‘closed’ tribal society from the ‘open’ society of free individuals, replaced ‘who should rule?’ with ‘how can we get rid of bad rulers without violence?’, and preferred piecemeal social engineering to utopian engineering. Explai…
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