RFI: Karl Popper's Open Society & Its Enemies

It is however possible I am imagining all this and I never actually opened the pages of this book.

I don’t know how I ended up in this book at all, but it’s clear and very strong argumentation is pretty bracing. I am enjoying its clarity. Not done yet, I’m at the “why historicism is illegit” part in his evaluation and explanation of marx. This is a bit out of my depth, though I understand the arguments and have enough background study to get who and what he’s going on about. As one with good history education but not much of philosophy, I am quite surprised that many of his criticisms of parts of marx’s approach match my own heuristics re marx. i wonder how much of my general late 20th c education handed me popper’s argument without my real awareness of popper proper.

anyway, yeah, it’s interesting.

so far i didn’t get a sense of “laissez faire = good” so much as “the alternatives we got from plato and hegel are fascist for the former, and compromised, false, and self-interested for the latter.”

Lol “its”