Society open to values. A proposition of a modification of Karl Popper’s social theory in the spirit of Isaiah Berlin’s ethical pluralism
Society open to values. A proposition of a modification of Karl Popper’s social theory in the spirit of Isaiah Berlin’s ethical pluralism

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present a suggestion for enriching the axiological aspect of Karl Popper’s political thought in the spirit of Isaiah Berlin’s ethical pluralism. For it seems that the greatest weakness of Popper’s theory of an open society is not the obsolete nature of the postulated solutions, their impracticality or else the excessively theoretical nature of the conducted analyses, which their author had often been blamed for. The afore-mentioned frailty reveals itself in Popper’s adoption of scientific optics which had led him to the construction of a strictly procedural political theory that had almost dogmatically ignored values. Therefore, the proposition of introducing modifications into Popper’s political theory, particularly as regards its “de-formalization” and an “opening up” to a certain axiological minimum, should significantly strengthen this idea making it more impervious to various voices of criticism.

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