Karl popper unended quest an intellectual autobiography

Autobiography of Karl Popper

Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography is a 1976 book by the philosopher Karl Popper.^[1]

The work first appeared with the title "Autobiography of Karl Popper" in The Philosophy of Karl Popper (1974) from the Library of Living Philosophers series.^[2]

The book chronicles Popper's life from the beginning, including wider implications he drew from his experiences.

Karl popper unended quest an intellectual autobiography

In chapter 1, "Omniscience and Fallibility," for example, he describes his apprenticeship to a cabinetmaker while he was a university student. His master invited him to ask anything he liked, because, with due modesty, the master claimed to know everything.

Popper writes that he became a disciple of Socrates and learned more about the theory of knowledge, including how little he knew, from his 'omniscient master' than from his university teachers.^[3] Other thematic chapter subjects include music, education, philosophical problems Popper