Karl Popper and the social engineering: utopian vs. piecemeal

MACERI, S

Dialektika

UH

Año: 2021

2708-4353

*TAL COMO SE MUESTRA EN EL LINK DEL TEXTO COMPLETO SE TRATA DE LA VERSIÓN INGLESA DEL ARTÍCULO ANTERIOR.In short, piecemeal engineers have a modest attitude, for they do not aspire to change society as a whole, nor do they aspire to the perfection of the ideal state or to make anyone happy, since there are no institutional means to do so, but rather that ?men exercise their right not to sufferThe piecemeal engineer may or may not have drawn in his mind a blueprint for society and may or may not hope that humanity will one day materialize it, achieving perfection and happiness. But he will be aware that perfection is a distant thing.Says Popper: ?if the utopian method results, it is because the piecemeal method supplied the necessary experience, and this, in any case, always within the limits of the acquired experiences?.