Translation: “This lecture is by Karl Popper in Zurich in 1958, from the book In Search of a Better World. I translated it from this link.” Sir Karl Popper: Who Should Rule?
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Sir Karl Popper: The Consequences of Irrationalism
Monday, February 14, 2011
Let us examine the consequences of irrationalism [...] The irrationalist insists that emotions and passions rather than reason are the mainsprings of human action. To the rationalist’s reply that, though this may be so, we should do what we can to remedy it, and should try to make reason play as large a part as [...]
Sir Karl Popper: The Conspiracy Theory of Society
Monday, January 24, 2011
It must be admitted that the structure of our social environment is man-made in a certain sense; that its institutions and traditions are neither the work of God nor of nature, but the results of human actions and decisions, and alterable by human actions and decisions. But this does not mean that they are all [...]
Sir Karl Popper: Intellectual Intuition
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Aristotle held with Plato that we possess a faculty, intellectual intuition, by which we can visualize essences and find out which definition is the correct one, and many modern essentialists have repeated this doctrine. Other philosophers, following Kant, maintain that we do not possess anything of the sort. My opinion is that we can readily [...]
Anonymous: Seikilos Epitaph
Monday, September 6, 2010
via youtube. Wikipedia: Seikilos Epitaph The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving example of a complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world. The song, the melody of which is recorded, alongside its lyrics, in the ancient Greek musical notation, was found engraved on a tombstone, near Aidin, Turkey (not far from [...]