Keywords
critic
political historicism
justification
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Abstract
The thesis that this paper attempts to establish is that Popper's criticism to the theoretical justification of historicism is actually founded on a moral decision. According to Popper, the historicist's pretension of having captured for once and for all the key of historical evolution has worked as an argument to support some holistic or utopic engineering projects whose practical result have been the sacrifice of many men and women in name of an ideal of society with clear utopic content and, therefore, probably nonattainable. Popper aims to demonstrate that this pretension is not just specially by its moral consequences, and that in addition, is in no way justifiable from theconditions of the scientific knowledge. Popper's methodologic strategy in this point is establishing the reach of historical knowledge and, according to it, to what type of conclusions can it be seriously committed. This means, in other words, to determine the epistemologic status of history and what kinds of information can it reasonably provide to justify political decisions.
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