By the way, have you noticed that Popper's epistemology is almost the same as Lenin's?
--- "Charles A. Grimes" <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:
>
> Yesterday Karl Popper's Open Society and its Enemies
> came ups at
> work. Last night I got through something under fifty
> pages. He puts
> Plato first on the list and does a great job of it,
> detailing out how
> such view of the world leads to a closed view. Of
> course Popper's
> model is what he saw as the scientific
> revolution---but that is
> different question...
>
> So, anybody out there ever read this work, any
> opinions. I can see
> exactly why Strauss and Voegelin conspired to ruin
> Popper's potential
> appointment to the University of Chicago in the
> mid-50s. He was their
> intellectual enemy.
>
> However there are some scholarship questions
> involved S and V accused
> Popper of a mistaken interpretation of Plato. I
> don't have enough of a
> classics background to judge this question. I
> suspect it's wrong, but
> I am only left with an intutitive opinion that
> Popper's take is
> probably the more accurate.
>
> Anybody out there know different, or whats to follow
> up these various
> questions? The importance here is that Popper,
> provided he is correct,
> sets up a well established and highly respected
> Liberal counter
> argument of much of Strauss's political philosophy.
>
> CG
> ,
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