Karl R. Popper (1902-1994) A century of "endless search" for truth

Abstract

A century ago, in 1902, Karl R. Popper was born, one of the contemporary philosophers who have most influenced Western thought through his ideas on knowledge, science, ethics and religion. The occasion of the centenary of Popper's birth gives us the opportunity to present his eventful intellectual itinerary, his philosophical work and some of the theological implications of his approach, as presented by Popper himself and some of his disciples. Our journal Projection, whose aim is to build bridges between theology and today's world, cannot remain absent from the memory of this centenary. This work presents to readers who are not specialists in philosophy of science and theory of knowledge a synthesis of his life, the evolution of his thought and the implications of his ideas for religious experience and theology. The most important challenge that Popperian epistemology presents to Theology is related to the broad semantic field of truth. Popper always considered himself agnostic and there are hardly any explicit references to religion in his work. But there are interesting religious and theological implications in both Popper's own and Popperian ideas.