: The Study of Man . Michael Polanyi.

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

Two Cultures Revisited: Michael Polanyi on the Continuity Between the Natural Sciences and the Study of Man

Keywords: Snow's problem, Michael Polanyi, the natural sciences, the study of man, continuity and distinction. Polanyi's response to Snow's problem is a two-step strategy. First, he undermines the supposed gap between the natural sciences and the study of man and establishes the continuity between them. Second, based upon what is achieved in the first step, he explores the distinctions between ...

Michael Polanyi and Spontaneous Order , 1941 - 1951

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 The optimism in which the modern world was conceived and nurtured has been replaced by a thoroughgoing skepticism that denies the possibility of making meaningful truth claims, especially when those claims bear on morality and religion.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...