Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Francis de Véricourt · 10 May 2021 · 291pp · 80,068 words
the 1930s, as Nazis, fascists, and communists succeeded in suffocating the diversity of thought. It is a concern that the philosopher Karl Popper called the “paradox of tolerance”: that to tolerate intolerance eventually leads to no tolerance at all (fittingly, see note). Throughout this book we have taken pains to suggest there is
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Market System—What It Is, How It Works, and What to Make of It (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001). On Karl Popper’s “paradox of tolerance”: Karl Popper, “The Principle of Leadership,” in The Open Society and Its Enemies, vol. 1 (Abington, UK: Routledge, 1945), note 4. The idea is raised
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, 208 mental models employed affect, 5 reframing provides new, 126 “Our World in Data” project, 19 Page, Scott, 166–167, 243 paradigm shifts, 10–11 “paradox of tolerance,” 178, 244 Parker, Robert, 109 Pasteur, Louis, 61 pattern recognition, 56 Pauling, Linus, 132 Pearl, Judea, 68 Perec, Georges, 103, 236 Perfume (Süskind), 83 Piaget
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, From the Ancients to Fake News
by Eric Berkowitz · 3 May 2021 · 412pp · 115,048 words
.” “Such speech,” the court held, “cannot be restricted simply because it is upsetting or arouses contempt.”115 The European policy toward hate speech reflects the “paradox of tolerance” theory of the Austrian-born British philosopher Karl Popper. In The Open Society and Its Enemies, he wrote that “unlimited tolerance must lead to the
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
by Timothy Garton Ash · 23 May 2016 · 743pp · 201,651 words
go too far in tolerating those who are themselves programmatically intolerant, we will end up destroying the foundations of tolerance. Karl Popper calls this the paradox of tolerance: ‘unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance’.19 Exploring the idea of civility thus takes us to the heart of an unending debate
Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism
by Ed West · 19 Mar 2020 · 530pp · 147,851 words
returned as professors; and this radicalism fanned out into the wider culture of media and politics. One interpretation of PC is that it is the ‘paradox of tolerance’, promoting tolerance of historically disadvantaged or persecuted groups to such an extreme that it becomes itself another form of intolerance.11 The Left would argue
The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century
by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words
is enough to nurture the forces of liberalism, even in the longer run. Democracy, after all, suffers from the political version of Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance, which has it that tolerating the intolerant can lead to the latter imposing their intolerance13: autocrats can use democracy to gain power and impose autocracy
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
by Philip Mirowski · 24 Jun 2013 · 662pp · 180,546 words
many circumstances that resembled those the MPS was constructed to counter. For instance, in a long footnote in Open Society he grants the plausibility of paradoxes of tolerance (“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance”) and democracy (“the majority may decide that a tyrant should rule”), but had little to offer
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the opposing camp. Everyone, they said, was welcome to participate. Yet there abided a closed subset of MPS insiders who recognized the force of the paradoxes of tolerance and democracy; and consequently they ran their thought collective as an exclusive hierarchical organization, consisting of members preselected for conformity, which encountered opposed conceptions of
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
by Joanne McNeil · 25 Feb 2020 · 239pp · 80,319 words
for bringing it to public attention. I interviewed P. Tomi Austin on July 7, 2018. I interviewed Kat Lo in July 2018. Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance is often invoked as a counter to the policy of content free-for-all. He defined this in his 1945 book, The Open Society and
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View
by William MacAskill · 31 Aug 2022 · 451pp · 125,201 words
, rather than studying the scripture of a holy book, is not one that everyone would accept.130 The lock-in paradox thus resembles the familiar paradox of tolerance—the necessity for liberal societies to defend themselves against intolerant views that would undermine their freedom, even if doing so requires curtailing the very tolerance