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Doubleday/Anchor, 1966-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good.

University Of Chicago Press, May 2009. Paper Back. New. Michael Polanyi summarized his mature thought in Harvard University's 1962 Terry Lectures. The lectures, here reprinted in a sturdy hardbound volume, address the fundamental question: 'How can we understand any phenomena complex enough to be truly valuable?' One thinks of morality, love, and the sacramental life. Polanyi's answer -- surprising yet convincing -- invokes a tacit, unspoken and unspeakable, human facility that transposes our sensory perceptions into meaningful knowledge much as a blind man transposes the forces exerted by a cane on his hand into something utterly different: a picture of his nearby world. Polanyi's analysis eschews reductionism, elevates the person to the truly real, and advances a traditionalism that enjoins belief before knowledge. Finally, he warns against the twin fanaticisms of our time: an extreme lucidity that destroys what it seeks to explain and a moral perfectionism that degenerates… Read More

Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1983. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear/soil to boards and spine, gift inscription FFEP, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 108pp. from Introduction: "...I have shown that any attempt to avoid the responsibility for shaping the beliefs which we accept as true is absurd; but the existentialist claim of choosing our beliefs from zero is now proved absurd too. Thought can live only on grounds which we adopt in the service of a reality to which we submit." #02488.

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University Of Chicago Press, 2009-05-01. Reissue. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New. Suitable for students and scholars, this title challenges the assumption that skepticism, rather than established belief, lies at the heart of scientific discovery.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Suitable for students and scholars, this title challenges the assumption that skepticism, rather than established belief, lies at the heart of scientific discovery.

University Of Chicago Press, 2009. Paperback. New. reissue edition. 108 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches.

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Kinokuniya Bookstore, 1985. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Doubleday/Anchor, 1966-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!