“between”
― Popper: The Champion Guides
― Popper: The Champion Guides
“Philosophies turned away from the world were not to Hahn’s taste. According to him, however, they could still be found in the systems of German idealism—and how could it be otherwise? The Germans are known, after all, as the nation of thinkers and poets. But a new day is slowly breaking, and the liberation is coming from the same land that gave birth to political liberation—namely, England: the English, after all, are known as the nation of shopkeepers. And it is surely no accident that one and the same nation gave the world both democracy, on the one hand, and the rebirth of a philosophy turned toward the world, on the other; nor is it an accident that the same land that saw the beheading of a king also witnessed the execution of metaphysics. Yet the weapons of a philosophy that is turned toward the world are not the executioner’s sword and axe—it is not as bloodthirsty a beast as that—though its weapons are sharp enough. And today I want to talk about one of these weapons—namely, Occam’s razor.”
― Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
― Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
“And this led Schlick to formulate a succinct moral principle: “Sei glücksbereit! ” or, rendered literally in English, “Be ready for happiness!” The spirit of the remark, however, is perhaps more accurately caught by the less compact phrase “Always be ready to give happiness a chance!”
― Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
― Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
“In Popper's opinion, the program can be fairly described as totalitarian. He noted some objections to that verdict, such as Plato's desire for Goodness and Beauty, and his love of Wisdom and Truth, and the idea that the wise should rule, rather than the strong or a hereditary monarch. And above all is the idea that the state should be founded upon Justice. These objections reflect the tendency to interpret Plato in the best possible light, even on the part of writers who were clearly aware of the totalitarian tendencies in his thinking. Popper defended equalitarian justice by which he meant equality before non-discriminatory laws and an equal distribution of the limitations on freedom that are required for a functional society.”
― Popper: The Champion Guides
― Popper: The Champion Guides
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