Michael Polanyi, 12 March 1891- 22 February 1976

Michael Polanyi

RECENTLY there fell into my hands by the kindness of its author a book which has revealed to me a new, and I think much better, understanding of the situation we are facing today in consequence of the modern scientific revolution. The author’s name is Josef Pieper, professor of philosophical anthropology at the University of Münster, and his book which so impressed me is entitled Scizolastik. (...

Michael Polanyi and Human Identity

Michael Polanyi and Spontaneous Order , 1941 - 1951

Wilder G. Penfield (1891-1976), neurosurgeon and scientist.

Founder and first director of the Montreal Neurological Institute, Wilder G. Penfield established the "Montreal Procedure" for the surgical treatment of epilepsy, a brain disorder characterized by sudden and recurrent seizures. His revolutionary work is the very foundation of neurological studies. He was celebrated as 'the greatest living Canadian.'

Polanyi , MacIntyre , and the Role of Tradition Michael Polanyi , Alasdair MacIntyre , and the Role of Tradition

Introduction Modernity has reached a dead end. The optimism in which the modern world was conceived and nurtured has been replaced by a thoroughgoing skepticism that denies the possibility of making meaningful truth claims, especially when those claims bear on morality and religion. The irony is that this has occurred as we have become increasingly confident of scientific utterances. Thus, as o...