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With an account, you can revise, criticize, and comment on ideas.The Open Society
The concept of an 'Open Society' is central to the political philosophy of Critical Rationalism, detailed by Karl Popper in The Open Society and Its Enemies. An open society is characterized by individualism, where personal choice and responsibility are paramount, in contrast to a closed society (e.g., tribal or collectivist) which demands the subordination of the individual to the group. It replaces the justificationist political question, "Who should rule?", with the fallibilist question: "How can we structure our institutions so that we can remove bad rulers and bad policies without violence?". In this view, democracy is not "rule by the people" (an essentialist definition) but is valued as the only known institutional mechanism for error-correction and leadership change without bloodshed.
It replaces…
What does ‘it’ refer to here? The concept of an open society? An open society itself? Subordination? The group? Grammatically, any of these could work!
"How can we structure our institutions so that we can remove bad rulers and bad policies without violence?".
The period at the end seems unnecessary.
…the only known institutional mechanism for error-correction…
Not totally clear what error correction means in this context. Leadership change is only one example of error correction in politics. Maybe mention policy change as well?