Author: Andrzej Flis
Andrzej Flis is Professor of Sociology at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Established in 1364, it is one of the world’s oldest universities.
The Polish Church as an Enemy of the Open Society
In The Open Society and Its Enemies, first published half a century ago, Karl Popper distinguished between two kinds of economic-political systems: closed societies and open societies. The former have a semi-organic nature and place submission to authority among the highest values; the latter are abstract and impersonal entities that, by their very nature, “set …