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Popper, Karl

 
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A collection of essays that offers striking new insight into the mind of one of the greatest living philosophers. Popper’s subjects range from the beginnings of scientific speculation in Greece to the role of science in the arts.

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Karl Popper

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In the course of a life of ninety years Sir Karl 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 search for a better world is never complete, but in spite of two world wars and a long and dangerous cold war, it was not in vain. The essays and lectures collected in this book chart many familiar as well as some less known aspects of Sir Karl's thinking - from his interest in the birth of scientific speculation in classical Greece to the destructive effects on the intellect of totalitarianism in twentieth-century states. His discussions range over problems of politics, the history of philosophy and great figures of the Enlightenment such as Voltaire and Kant, and the relation of science and art (in an address given at the 1979 Salzburg festival). The book offers important new insights into the thought of one of the greatest of living philosophers, and into the role of science in our civilization.

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9780415135481: In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years

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ISBN 10:  0415135486 ISBN 13:  9780415135481
Editorial: Routledge, 1995
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