From: "Rafe Champion" <rchamp-AT-bigpond.net.au>
Subject: PKF: Re: Re: Popper
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:08:35 +1100



> Hello! I'm from Poland and writing a work about PKF's philosophy.
> I don't like Popper, too. First of all, I don't like his faith in
democracy
> (always totalitarian) and in science. I think they are discredited values.
> Robert Surma

PKF must have liked Popper's social philosophy at some stage of his life
because he did the German translation of "The Open Society".  In chapter 7
you will find a non-totalitarian theory of democracy. Certainly rule by the
majority is no more attractive than any other kind of tyranny, but Popper's
proposal for democracy is not majority rule!

Someone else can take up the defence of science. As with totalitarian
democracy, Science as an Authority with a capital S is most unattractive,
and that is one of Popper's insights that PKF endorsed with a great deal of
enthusiasm.

Rafe
http://zap.to/rafechampion



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