As a result, the iron curtain became not only a physical but above all an ideological border – the assertion of freedom against the claim to power of totalitarianism. This book was one of the intellectual foundations of the political course that was set by Winston Churchill’s speeches in Fulton (Missouri) and Zurich in 1946: the formation of a Western community of states based on the rule of law and human rights to oppose the Soviet empire. The open society and its enemies is the title of Karl Popper’s major book in political philosophy, written in exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in 1945. There is no moral value that stands above the dignity of every individual human being.
THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES FREE
Externalities that come with free actions are played out in such a way that ultimately every free action comes under suspicion of harming others.Leading personalities from science, politics and business, in conjunction with the mass media, make these challenges appear as existential crises for humanity in order to gain acceptance for sweeping the basic values of our society aside by means of deliberately fomented fear.Such challenges have always been mastered by open societies through spontaneous adaptation of behaviour and technological innovation.
Challenges such as the spread of the coronavirus or climate change are not entirely new in their quality and magnitude.Like after the Second World War, we face today once again a choice between freedom and totalitarianism, namely between an open society that recognizes every human being as a person unconditionally and a closed society that ties the granting of fundamental rights to certain conditions that are set by a ruling elite.
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