ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the main arguments presented in this volume in favour of the integration of critical rationalism into the theory of society and argues that the conception of rationality as ‘unfalsified belief’ enables the theory of human action to show how reason manages the pursuit of self-interest. Chapter 10 presents the way in which the resultant theory of action allows the theory of society to use the epistemology of rational dialogue to explain how actors reach normative and institutional agreements and revise them through the action necessary for social order and social change. This chapter reaches the conclusion that the theory of society proposed in this book prepares the ground for a new sociology of the open society.
