The Popperian Podcast #1 – David Deutsch – ‘Karl Popper and the Beginning of Infinity’
The Popperian Podcast
The Only Way to Prevent People From Being Dangerous Is to Make People Free
The only way to prevent people from being dangerous is to make them free. The enlightenment created a radically new kind of society where there is legitimacy that is not based on fear and obedience, but is based on a reason. If no new ideas could be created, then the only way that existing ideasd could er confront each otheris ultimately by violence. So if you think of human interaction as being mechanicalas asi, if you omit the element of creativity, it causes unanimous agreement. And i'm going to, i might introduce, what on this question, with a quote of yours.
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