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Karl Raimund Popper (1902–1994)

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Karl Popper, an outstanding philosopher of the twentieth century, was a close follower of Bertrand Russell and of Albert Einstein. He did more than continue and consolidate their philosophical achievements: he set new ways of philosophizing. Many philosophers sought to find a via media between rationalism and irrationalism, between individualism and collectivism, and between radicalism and traditionalism.

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Agassi, J. (2014). Karl Raimund Popper (1902–1994). In: Popper and His Popular Critics. SpringerBriefs in Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06587-8_7

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