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en-wikipedia-org-9089		Open society - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2231	396	61	The French philosopher Henri Bergson coined the term open society (French: société ouverte) in 1932.[1][2] The idea was further developed during World War II by the Austrian-born British philosopher Karl Popper.[3][4] Popper saw the classical Greeks as initiating the slow transition from tribalism towards the open society, and as facing for the first time the strain imposed by the less personal group relations entailed thereby.[8] Political freedoms and human rights are claimed to be the foundation of an open society.[by whom?] Popper's theory that knowledge is provisional and fallible implies that society must be open to alternative points of view. R. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, 2 vols. R. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume One (1945), 1 and 174–75. Media related to Open Society at Wikimedia Commons	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9089.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9089.txt