Popper's Model Of Society

Sir Karl Raimund Popper, an Austrian and British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is considered one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, and also wrote extensively on social and political philosophy. He also wrote on social and political philosophy, especially the evils of totalitarian ideas and politics. Popper is known for the idea of empirical falsification.

Popper 's work on political philosophy is also of great importance. In his work he not only claimed that liberal and open society is the best form society but also justified his claim to a major extent. Popper in his work argued against great philosophers such as Marx, Hegel and Plato. Popper argued that the growth of

Pooper is totally against the Plato ideology of perfect republic utopia which he insist to realize on the earth.

Popper also openly critics Hegel’s thought for the society which he wants everyone to follow, Popper claims Hegel as a state extremist and also Hegel’s model of society as a bourgeois model where the elites will have an upper hand over others with the supremacy of the ethicality and politic over economy.

Popper critics towards Marx who is popularly known as a prophet of communist utopias. Popper bluntly disqualifies Marx’s ideologies by quoting already existing drawbacks of the existent communist regimes and adds that communist regime is moreover a promoter of the totalitarian

He points out that the rules should be framed in such a way that there should be regularity in all aspects as the state should be able to regularize the formulated rules beyond chaos. He provides a clear notion of validation of the quest to realize the static social order which contributes to the benefit of all the citizens of the state.

Popper critics the Principle of Leadership which the Popper proposes. Plato was not happy with the democracy as a tool which can be used to choose the ruler of the state and he denotes that this factor is the major setback of democracy. Popper interprets that this notion of Plato is misleading and also results in confusion and disturbs the whole rationality of democracy.

Popper also believed firmly that the society is succeeding in moving from a closed to open society in all aspects, the important drawback of Plato’s ideology is that his vision of society makes the citizens to sit where they belong to which leads to fundamentalism and