conference - Polanyi 2021 10 23

develop positive knowledge
accummulated summed up
bigger and bigger
Post-criticxal enlighenment

does not seek universal
knowing seek to find objective knowledge
but is tied to the person
subjective/objective
towards grasping
but subjective endeavour
problematic to make a dichotomy
prost-critical knowledge
implies belief about
what is this knowing is about belief is inherent in knowing
democratization, popular culture
deliver knowledge to the people
most simple language
popular book on Keynesian economics

- section : competing Englightenments - people

people willing to learn about science
people willing to transform society based on science
Malthus
enlightenment prospect
against Perfectibility of Mankind
polany was not sceptical aboiut it
ideas spread transform society
the ultimate commitment to science
solve conflict of interests
there is a natural tendency
e=increasing of scientification conflict of opinion
enqyuring more into the details
post-critical enlightenment
new kind of education
different view of people
science should be made accessible to lay people
explain what is happening chemical reaction
transformation of scoicety based on science
not as simple
because if certain tipping points are not reached
new ideas should reach lot of people
fail to effect policy
Tipping points ?
quantitqtive aualitative perpective
conflicts of interests
disappear with more science
reconciliation oconflicts
f

- section : Public understanding of Science

everyman ?
lead to netter world
commitment to science
overrides anything else
science prevail without thinking naive
Society has science
science should made accessible
Descart3es published essay
lay people going to the library
made accessible
several possible roads
dead ands bad ends bad science
science with a bad morality
Commitment to science does not override other commitments

settled in ingland 1933
why did we destroy europe
leinign and Hitler
England is the origin of modernity
enlightenment seeked to justify Modernity
failed to give an account of the christian origins of modernity
when it was exported to the contienent
veritable
when it was exporte tot he continent
implications of the absence of a spiritual ground to modernity
generated niohilism
and tootalitarianism
the consequece was
that the moral passion in Christianity unconstrained
become utopianism
the idnadequecy of utilitaritarianims becomes nihilism
catholoticism without
no ground for value
attack on the nature of the spiritual
desroy europe
argue modernity was rejection of catholicism
greek capable of comprehending the oreddered univers
jewish conception messianic conception of morality
the world is the way it is
but we decide how we are going to act
the good was defined gods will laws
tension between the greek immanent
jeish trqanscendent conception
unified with the concept of las
natural lwa
moreal law
devine foundation
both were alphabetic cultures
roughly where israle is
cananite
took the symbold to denot wovel
cananite phonecians
exported to greek
scribal cutlrure
greek culture cnon alexandria
canon of text
scuplture too and painting
reneissance is not the source of modernity
textual inheritance
then the roman element
the plotical
monarchical system with a bureocracy
at op down system
the easter half carried on
but the wetern part collapsed
skin of his teeth monstries
emperor was the pope
stalin the pope has no batallions
alliance with the germanic tribes
spiritual and temoporal authority
this what modernity rejects
took place in England
modernity emphasizing discovery
dynamism
not easthetic
facilitating contual change
7 elements of modernity from England in the middle ages
1
why england
geographical explanation
nation state because it is small could be iunified
island
no standing army
the king was not that powerful
england was part of the roman empire but it waws not that deep
the political system was germanic
common law system
not edicts
the judge looks at the tect
juries make decisition precedence
traniition discverying what is just
2
king is subject to th he law
the kin is hekld to account
people with property send representatives to the parliament
3
property rights are protected
inscentives to accummulate wealth it will be protected
leads to free marktet
4
Free market middle class literature
interested in individuality
not greek tragedy is inexorable
ideosyncracy find it in chaucer
and shalkespear
Harold Bloom
remakr by Hegel
charecters discover themselves overhear themselves
5
religion everyone is his own priest
cam know what is good
sacrmental undermined
6
experiment
7
inqyuiry within experience
Thje continent was aware
total rejection or anglophilia
something in between
acceptance
Descartes followed the example of Bacon
accepting work of Galileo
in the science element
impetus theory
mathematical description of obhject in motion
first law of motion
descared wanted to assert to power of philosophy
decide on the basis of reason
appeal to the scholastic tradition
Mathesis Universalis
Kant Apriori
Certainity leads to ruin
rational rules
Hegel
according to reason there should be a planet there
modernity exported at different time
Wyucliff
huss
Luther
Occam very influential
parliamentary democracy
industrial revolution
shift
the argument against england
suspended the logic of modernity
communism pre modern conception
need to modernize
not quite right modernity was a rejection
it was a purification
with the gospel
criticize the pope
reassertion the belief in the rational understandable world
rejection of pure reason
centralized rejection
the power of the king needs to be restrained
netgative legacy
legacy of articulation
inability of defineding the spirityual tradition
accepted
could argue
it was not afailure of ontiphisopsophics
imporance of articualtion
Is it true to say
that it was a tacit culture
explicit tradition
there was decline people cesed to believe
the good the just and the beatuiful
if you cannot say
Yung
you believe in god it is not a qwuestion fo believe I know
Is it an all knowing
is there life after death
second comming
I do not believe any of that for a second
Polanyi
anything is ever settled
conscious ness freedom of will values objective reality
we cannot live like that
moral inversion
in science
all determined by atomic processes
powerful
reality of evil
knew full well
what they were doing
envious of hte jews
resentfull concentration camp
jewsih intellectuals hated chrstianity
is this an ideological question
if only they had the right theology?
I enjoy th epropect
it is not just the text
believe in the reality of the good and people decide to be evil
derangement
friend
good person
not stupid person
yet MP said
you support brexit and you are worse than the nazis
in Merica the notion
Silicon Valley manipulating algorithm
the former president the wrong half
deplatformed from the social media
threat to free society
1920s
economic crisis
how does Polanyi helps aginst derangement and evil
tried to do in the 40s
how successful was hy?
Philosophy departments
militant statism scientism
myultiucyltural nihilism
not succeeded
his time has come
still working throught he niilistic implications of materialism
good ground for spiritual reparenting
defence of modernity
a spiritual grounded modernity
conscious ness situated
it does not mean relativist
you are situated in reality
connected to it
integrating you awareness
formulateing abstract ideas
life is a meaningful things
concept of a meaningful
it is a heuristic humanstiic antrhopology
meaning seeking
acknowledgeing the tacit the spiritual foundation supplement the western with tesatern
where the tacit is a familiar concept
retain the mortedn notion of a dynamic inqyury
regeneration
of application of these
tools for meaning
facilitate our abiliteis to pursue meaning
a Polanyian technology
begin real impact
that is another issue for another day

Phil question

Put a lot of things on the table

try to one of them differently

Michael Polany central European

educated beforfe the first www

liberalism

he appreciated that

ends up in germany

lots of important people

wrork out his ideas of science

comes to England 1933

air was bad in Manchester had to get out

fundamentally changed

7 things

Moral

jusges discovery

lot seay about Adam Smith

studying English Culture

English and the continent are different

Logic of Liberty

Experience in England

absolutely important

what he comes to say as a thinker

agreeing

Chirstopher

in Hungary after the dual monarchy

there was an anglophilia

it was not a blank slate

engineering

mother more to Russia

England need to superceded

there was an earlier tradition of reform

there was the war

contribution to the war effort

forbidden working on government projects Karl Polanyi

his bit to the defence of Western civilization

go down deeply understanding the nature of english civilization

origins of modernity

critical of th English philosopher

wrong account pernicious legacy

the critical needs correctiing

justification of modernity

failure to address

he is not starry idea about the antiphilosophical nature of english culture

his philosophy was an attempt to remedy that defect

Part of his defense

Christianity

Richar Geldwick

Polanyi was a Christian

it is more complicated than that

I am arguing

defending christianity