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The MugwumperyMugwumpery, n. The acts and views of the mugwumps. Optimism is a duty. October 26th, 2017. I have never met a philosopher who had anything to say that wasn’t nonsense. But I have read Karl Popper. He constitutes an existence proof that meaningful philosophy is possible. The motto Popper seems to have most liked repeating was:. This appears to be an expansion of Kant’s “optimism is a moral duty”. If I recall correctly, Popper first published this in 1945, in. The Open Society and its Enemies. The possibil...
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