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In search of a better world : lectures and essays from thirty years / Karl Popper ; translated by Laura J. Bennett, with additional material by Melitta Mew
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TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: London, Routledge, ©1992Description: x, 245 pages ; 22 cmISBN: - 0415087740
- Auf der Suche nach einer besseren Welt. English
- ARCH YNDC 192 P831S
- B1649.P633 A9413 1992
Contents:
A summary by way of a preface
Translator's acknowledgements
On knowledge
Knowledge and the shaping of reality: the search for a better world
On knowledge and ignorance
On the so-called sources of knowledge
Science and criticism
Logic of the social sciences
Against big words (A letter not originally intended for publication)
On history
Books and thoughts: Europe's first publication
Appendix: On a little-known chapter of Mediterranean history
On culture clash
Immanuel Kant: the philosopher of the Enlightenment (A lecture to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Kant's death)
Emancipation through knowledge
Public opinion and liberal principles
An objective theory of historical understanding
Von den Neuesten... zusammengestohlen aus Verschiedenem, Diesem und Jenen
How I see philosophy (Stolen from Fritz Waismann and from one of the first men to land on the moon)
Toleration and intellectual responsibility (Stolen from Xenophanes and from Voltaire)
What does the West believe in? (Stolen from the author of The Open Society)
Creative self-criticism in science and art (Stolen from Beethoven's sketch books)
Appendix
Name index
Subject index
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| ARCH YNDC 192 P398B Butler / | ARCH YNDC 192 P398D David Hume : an introduction to his philosophical system / | ARCH YNDC 192 P398T Themes in Hume : the self, the will, religion / | ARCH YNDC 192 P831S In search of a better world : lectures and essays from thirty years / | ARCH YNDC 192 P949B The British empiricists : Hobbes to Ayer / | ARCH YNDC 192 R125C A companion to Hume / | ARCH YNDC 192 R217B British moralists, 1650-1800 / |
Translation of: Auf der Suche nach einer besseren Welt
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
A summary by way of a preface
Translator's acknowledgements
On knowledge
Knowledge and the shaping of reality: the search for a better world
On knowledge and ignorance
On the so-called sources of knowledge
Science and criticism
Logic of the social sciences
Against big words (A letter not originally intended for publication)
On history
Books and thoughts: Europe's first publication
Appendix: On a little-known chapter of Mediterranean history
On culture clash
Immanuel Kant: the philosopher of the Enlightenment (A lecture to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Kant's death)
Emancipation through knowledge
Public opinion and liberal principles
An objective theory of historical understanding
Von den Neuesten... zusammengestohlen aus Verschiedenem, Diesem und Jenen
How I see philosophy (Stolen from Fritz Waismann and from one of the first men to land on the moon)
Toleration and intellectual responsibility (Stolen from Xenophanes and from Voltaire)
What does the West believe in? (Stolen from the author of The Open Society)
Creative self-criticism in science and art (Stolen from Beethoven's sketch books)
Appendix
Name index
Subject index
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