“The Open Society – and by this I mean both the society and the book – is opposed not just to this or that authority, and not just to Plato, Hegel and Marx. It is, on the contrary, opposed to the very idea that there are cognitive authorities that we can rely upon for the truth. So if we are going to understand open society as scientific or rational society, then we must also understand science and rationality in Poppers terms. We must think of science not as an institutionalized hierarchy of experts, but as a never-ending process of problem-solving in which we propose tentative solutions to our problems and then try to eliminate the errors in our proposals. We must think of rationality not in terms of justification, but in terms of criticism. And we must think of criticism not as an offense, or as a show of contempt or disdain, but as one of the greatest signs of respect that one mind can show to another.” Mark Amadeus Notturno, Science and the Open Society.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:00:07 +0000
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