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The Popperian Podcast #1 – David Deutsch – ‘Karl Popper and the Beginning of Infinity’
The Popperian Podcast
The Enlightenment and Empiricism
The enlightenment was a new thing t that may have also happened many times before, less often, but on all previous occasions, it had been snuffed out within a generation or two. With the enlightenment came this new kind of tradition, which pape called tradition of criticism and traces back to pre socraticphi sophers in ancient greece. The idea was that m what we were rebelling to do was to have an open ended increase in knowledge. So you began to get the idea that that the whole of the enlightenment was pervaded by the idea that humans are fallible, but that we can improve. It contradicted almost all previous traditions, that the very idea of a tradition
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