Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 11. März 1891 |
Geburtsort | Austria-Hungary |
Todesort | England |
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Beschreibung | Michael Polanyi FRS (/poʊˈlænji/; Hungarian: Polányi Mihály; 11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. He argued that positivism supplies an imperfect account of knowing as no observer is perfectly impartial. The contributions which Polanyi made to the social sciences include an understanding of tacit knowledge, and the concept of a polycentric spontaneous order to intellectual inquiry were developed in the context of his opposition to central planning |
I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
