Deconstruction and the Liberal Order
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4386633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Jean‐pierre Dupuy, Mark Anspach, Mark R Anspach |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2/3 |
| Pages | 110 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3684672 |
| OpenAlex | W2330743833 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
This is precisely one of the most important and famous theses defended by Karl Popper throughout his writings. transition from violence to critical reason was an evolutionary leap forward. This leap was made possible by the emergence of a descriptive and argumentative language, and then of a particular form of society, the open society. In the animal kingdom, theories or visions of the are in a sense incorporated in the organism or the genetic system. Those which are bad, inaccurate or poorly adapted are ruthlessly eliminated through the destruction of the organism that carries them. A human being, especially the citizen of a society that permits critical and rational debate, has the ability to criticize his own theories, to place himself at a distance from them. In the highly autonomous of productions of the mind-the third world in Popper's terminology-theories shown to be erroneous disappear without their elimination implying that of their author or promoter. eliminative function of violence is thus replaced by the eliminative function of rational criticism. In his rationalist optimism, Popper goes so far as to suppose that a society that assigns a sufficient place to rational critical discussion will succeed in eradicating violence. I will not discuss this thesis here, but touch upon what it implies for the of ideas. If men succeed in exorcising their violence by projecting it into the of ideas, this third world must bear traces of the violence it has inherited. This is in fact what Popper explicitly states: The art of argument is a peculiar form of the art of fighting-with words instead of swords... 2 reference to Hobbes is significant. Lakatos com
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2019 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |