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Title: In Search of a Better World by Karl Raimund Popper ISBN: 0-415-13548-6 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Scientist; Humanist: Critical Rationalist
Comment: The burden of being a philosopher that says something both new and counter-intuitive is that throughout one's career, you end up repeating yourself, re-clarifying your arguments to the endless number of critcs that misunderstand you. In Popper's case, the views advanced were that all knowldedge must be held as tentative and that real intellectual progress comes not from verifying true theories (which can never be 'for sure) but in falsifying and eliminating old ones (which you only need to do once). The critics misinterpreted and Popper did repeat himself time and time again.
This is one of the very few bad things about the book. Honestly, if you've read Popper before (Conjectures and Refutations, Objective Knowledge, Logic of Scientific Discovery) this book will have little, if any, to add. If you've not, this is a great introduction.
There are 3 sections: On Knowledge, On History and a section for miscellaneous essays. The first section touches on Popper's views on how we recieve, criticize, falsify and act on knowledge. The second is an expansion of the first. Here, Popper focuses on historical events hee deems important: Immanuel Kant's phiosophical formulation, the invention of the book. He also gets a tad bit into politics, where a liberal democracy is preferred.
It is the third section, though, that is the payoff. Essays ranging in diversity from "How I See Philosophy" to "What Does The West Believe In". The best essay in the book, "Toleration and Intellectual Responsibility", is a critical rationalist's look at the role of intellectuals (Popper carefully avoids snobbery here) role in perpetuating a tolerant, non-violent society. As crucial now in '03 as when he gave the lecture in '82.
To conclude, if you are new to Popper, this is a good intro (but Conjectures and Refutations or Popper Selections might still be better. If you've read those or much other Popper before, you will probably find yourself able to guess what Popper says in each essay without much problem. You can safely skip this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: An enlightened defense of tolerance and reason
Comment: This book was my first exposure to Popper's philosophy, which I have since found to be consistently convincing, enlightening, and inspiring. In the face of fashionable twentieth-century irrationalism and associated political fanaticisms, Popper stresses the importance of intellectual modesty, rational discourse, non-violence, tolerance, and an open society. In this series of collected essays Popper makes a lucid and compelling case for a philosophy that accepts that all of our knowledge is conjectural and uncertain, but that this, far from leading to irrationality, makes science and reason the best tools we have for confronting the universe that surrounds us. In contrast with the impenetrable, self-important nonsense of many modern philosophers, Popper writes with a refreshing simplificity and modesty. A truly beautiful and extraordinary book.
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Title: Fluid Physiology and Pathology in Traditional Chinese Medicine by Steven Clavey ISBN: 0443071942 Publisher: Churchill Livingstone Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $64.95 |
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Title: Designing Clinical Research: An Epidemiologic Approach by Stephen B. Hulley, Steven R. Cummings, Warren S. Browner, Deborah Grady, Norman Hearst, Thomas B. Newman ISBN: 0781722187 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $56.95 |
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Title: Nan-Ching: The Classic of Difficult Issues by Paul U. Unschuld ISBN: 0520053729 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 List Price(USD): $90.00 |
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Title: Illustrated Orthopedic Physical Assessment by Ronald C. Evans, Mosby Publishing ISBN: 0323005098 Publisher: Mosby Pub. Date: 05 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $89.95 |
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Title: Orthopaedic Neurology: A Diagnostic Guide to Neurologic Levels by Stanley Hoppenfeld ISBN: 0397503687 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Pub. Date: 01 June, 1977 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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