Bryan Magee

Introductory Karl Popper is not, as yet anyway, a household name among the educated, and this fact requires explanation. For as Isaiah Berlin writes in his biography of Karl Marx, Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies contains "the most scrupulous and formidable criticism of the...

CHAPTER ONE One of the most extraordinary things about being a human being is that we just wake up in the world and fmd ourselves here, though what 'here' is is something we never discover. Existence is something that happens to us, and then remains a mystery. There is no question of our having...