Logic of Liberty - Reflections & Rejoiners (Hardcover)

A chemist and member of a family renowned for its learning in several disciplines, Michael Polanyi experienced first-hand the horrors of totalitarian government and worldwide war. Consequently there is a singular weight to Polanyi's challenge to advocates of centrally planned scientific inquiry or the centrally planned implementation of scientific discovery. He argued that organizations--or governments--based solely on the methods of science threaten to foreclose a full human knowledge of the mysteries of existence and therefore pose a direct threat not only to academic freedom but to social and political liberty. The very triumphs of science in the modern era, Polanyi believed, at least affect and sometimes threaten liberty: "Our discovery and acceptance of scientific knowledge is a commitment to certain beliefs which we hold, but which others may refuse to share." This fateful interrelationship between science and liberty in our time is given supreme and elegant reflection in "The Logic of Liberty."Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) was an internationally renowned scientist, philosopher, "Personal Knowledge" and"The Tacit Dimension."Stuart D. Warner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Roosevelt University, Chicago.

General

Imprint:	Liberty Fund
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 1998
First published:	July 1998
Authors:	Michael Polanyi
Dimensions:	222 x 151 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	277
ISBN-13:	978-0-86597-182-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Promotions
LSN:	0-86597-182-X
Barcode:	9780865971820

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