Critical rationalism and irrationality

Abstract

In this paper we present some ideas concerning the element of irrationality that Karl Popper incorporates, explicitly, as foundation of his critical rationalism. In addition, we approach part of the objections directed to the matter having as a principal source the work Logic and ethic in Karl Popper, of Mariano Artigas. The author, besides gathering and analyzing in his book one brief but valuable intervention of the Austrian philosopher regarding the topic -registered in Kyoto’s Seminar realized in 1992-, adds, since his own perspective, the critiques against Popper and his, apparently, unnecessary commitment with the irrationality. In this work, we try to show that the above mentioned interference of the irrationality has plenary sense in the general author’s approach of the The open society and its enemies.