Avainsana: Enlightenment

• Popper, ”paradox of tolerance”, Hitler, Trump and the modern far-right

  The Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper wrote in his book ”Open society and its enemies” in 1945 about the ”paradox of tolerance” and warns of the danger of fascism and its bystanders. The paradox goes roughly like this: If tolerant people tolerate and accept intolerance, it follows that intolerant people like fascists and Nazis will take…

  Daniel Elkama

  18.3.2024

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