Significance And Limitation Of Open Society

Popper is a contemporary famous scientific philosopher and liberalism political philosopher in western. He constructed an encyclopedic philosophy system. This thesis centres on and spreads out from Popper' s political philosophy. At first, I investigate the basis of thought and philosophy on Popper' s political philosophy. Einstein' s relativity, Freudism and Marxism, which are called the three main trends in modern western, made a great impact on the whole Popper' s philosophy system. The methodological basis of his political philosophy are anti -induction,falsifiability principle,dynamic mould of knowledge increase and critical rationalism in Popper' s scientific philosophy .The foundation - stone of Popper' s political philosoply is his anti - historicism history - view. Which can be summarized to three key concepts,namely there is no law in history,history can't be forecasted and there is no meaning in history. Through theoretical and logical analysis and comment on it, this thesis aims to bring to light that Popper ' s criticism of Marxist historical materialism can' t stand on firm ground. The author hold that the process of human history is dialectical in unity with purpose and law; the basic tendency of historical development is inevitable, determinate and can be forcasted; the significance of history arises from the process of intergrating historical facts into cognitive frame and comprehensible struture.Popper interpreted the idea of his open society on the basis of criticizing closed society. Open society is a humanism society that is open and plural, public authority is opening to public crticism, individual is direct faced with choose, advocating reason and opposing follow blindly, proposing democracy and freedom, and conducing to solving problem. It's not only an ideal but also a reality. It is the greatest revolution of human history to step from the colsed society to the open society. In order to construct and improve the open society, it is necessary to op-pose the totalitarism Utopian social engineering and implement the advance piecemeal social engineering.Popper's political philosophy is held up as the basis of philosophical world - view by some Social Democratic Party and Labour Party of European country.Popper's political philosophy acted as a transition in the process of liberalism theory from the utilitarianlism to the new social can tract. It inherited the utilitarianism and enlightened the new social contract. Contemporary Chinese reforming and opening can also draw lessons from Popper's political philosophy.