Cornelis: Looks as though you’ve been sippin’ too much
Kool-aid at the Soroz ranch. Popper has long attracted hate-filled, venomous, ad hominem attacks from the “intellectual” elite. I think the elite took the off-ramp when Popper revealed modern Sociology as a bogus “science.” He pulled the mask off sociology in his Book, In Search of a Better World, Chapter 5, The Logic of the Social Sciences. The elite also hate Popper for his strong stance against
Relativism. As far as positivism is concerned, forget it. If you had really read any Popper, you would have known he frequently stated he was
not a Positivist. Every now and then, he would write: “I am often wrongly called a Positivist.” Look at
In Search of a Better World, Chapter 15.
What does the West Believe in?; third paragraph, wherein he flatly states, “This means I am a rationalist, and that I believe in Truth and human reason.” As a dunce, he went a long way: private correspondence with the leading thinkers of his time; recognition from Parliament (knighted in 1965); hatred by leftists around the globe.
PS: I can only surmise your state of mind after the recent Senatorial election in Massachusets. Have a good day. ----- JWThinkwright
Re: You don't know me.
It was you who presented the scurrilous, ad hominem attacks on Karl Popper, via a trumped up dialog, presumably between you and “Leo Strauss.” I don't think I need know more.