E298 - Karl Popper – The Open Society and Its Enemies (The Fragile Lamp) - The Deeper Thinking Podcast
Published: August 28, 2025
Duration: 30:32
Karl Popper – The Open Society and Its Enemies (The Fragile Lamp)
For those drawn to the struggle between prophecy and freedom, the fragility of democracy, and the vigilance required to keep societies open.
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What keeps democracy alive when prophecy promises certainty? In this episode, we return to Karl Popper’s wartime masterpiece, The Open Society and Its Enemies. Written in exile as Europe burned, Popper offered a radical proposition: that freedom is preserved not by destiny or utopia, but by corrigibility, by societies humble enough to ad...