Tradition & Discovery The Polanyi Society Periodical

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From Tacit Knowing to a Theory of Faith1

Both Polanyi and many of his interpreters saw the implications of tacit knowing for restoring the Augustinian principle that faith precedes understanding. Polanyi’s contribution to the rediscovery of the essential role of faith in the achievement of knowledge has, however, had a limited impact in science, philosophy, and in Christian theology. Polanyi’s epistemological contribution, nevertheles...

On the Tradition of Intellectuals: Authority and Antinomianism

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 The optimism in which the modern world was conceived and nurtured has been replaced by a thoroughgoing skepticism that denies the possibility of making meaningful truth claims, especially when those claims bear on morality and religion.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

The Emerging Comprehensive Moral Psychology of Darcia Narvaez Paul Lewis

Key Words: Darcia Narvaez, moral psychology, moral development, four-component model, triune ethics, tacit knowledge, implicit processing, moral intuitionism, Michael Polanyi. This review essay offers an overview of Darcia Narvaez's work in moral psychology based on a representative selection of essays published over roughly the last decade. I trace the roots of her work in post-Kohlbergian mor...