Talk:The Poverty of Historicism

Historicism
Does this page need an explanation of how Popper's historicism differs from Coxian historicism? Donnhouse (talk) 11:14, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure that Coxian historicism is relevant to this book - I would suggest that you raise this point on the Historicism discussion page, regards --Aquillagorilla (talk) 12:30, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Human nature
Is it not misleading to say that human nature varies with social institutions? To me the expression “human nature” means the inborn characteristics of the majority of humanity. As far as I know the human brain has not evolved in the last 100,000 years. (At least the time since the development of agriculture is far too short for any large evolutionary changes in humanity.) Inborn traits varies between individuals but not between large groups of people such as social classes, ethic groups or populations. There are differences between genders but these are statistical and not essential. Would it not be better to say that human psychology varies with social institutions? I think Karl Popper's point was that the outcome of human decisions are so much affected by the social institutions that there are no general laws for them.

2010-08-08 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden.

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