Was Karl Popper a Civic Republican?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F25%3A73635529" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/25:73635529 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.5507/aither.2025.006" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.5507/aither.2025.006</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/aither.2025.006" target="_blank" >10.5507/aither.2025.006</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Was Karl Popper a Civic Republican?
Original language description
Karl Popper has hitherto been understood as either a liberal or, at best, as a sui generis specimen of socialism. I argue that his political thought bears a remarkable resemblance to what Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner have dubbed the Italo-Atlantic branch of republicanism. Viewing Popper through a republican lens would reveal that there is a robust and coherent theory behind his attack on the “enemies of the open society”. The paper focuses successively on the concept of freedom understood as nondomination, on the role of the state and the rule of law, and on democracy. That Popper might be classified “as a republican, in something close to Pettit’s sense” has been suggested in passing by Jeremy Shearmur on a handful of occasions. The present article, however, should be the first to focus on the similarities in detail.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Aither. Časopis pro studium řecké a latinské filosofické tradice
ISSN
1803-7879
e-ISSN
1803-7860
Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
34
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
36-61
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105030997006