Karl Popper

(1902 –1994)

1. Austrian-British political thinker
2. ‘Scientific theories are those which can be falsified by experiments’
3. Supporter of liberal democracy and criticism of social injustice and ailments
4. Supporter of flourishing ‘open society’- moral universalism
5. His targets : Plato, Marx, Hegel (Enemy of open society)
6. Preferred Piecemeal social engineering over Utopian social engineering
7. Attempted to reconcile classical liberalism, social democracy, and conservatism
8. Critic of Plato, Marx, Rousseau- all those who idealized closed society

Books:

1. The Open Society and Its Enemies - 1945
2. The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge - 2009