Polanyi in a sentence

Democracy, as Karl Polanyi argued, had as one its functions, the “self-protection” of society against what he called the “satanic mills” of capitalism.

Polanyi posed the choice as one between an economically democratic, or socialist, system and one marked by anti-democratic authoritarianism.

According to Polanyi, a great scientist not only identifies patterns, but also chooses significant questions likely to lead to a successful resolution.

All knowing is personal In his book Science, Faith and Society (1946), Polanyi set out his opposition to a positivist account of science, noting that it ignores the role personal commitments play in the practice of science.

Charles Weaver, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor and one of the most vocal critics of the Polanyi Center, commented: "In academic arguments, we don't seek utter destruction and defeat of our opponents.

Critique of reductionism In "Life's irreducible structure" (1968), citation Polanyi argues that the information contained in the DNA molecule is not reducible to the laws of physics and chemistry.

Economic anthropology as influenced by Karl Polanyi and practiced by Marshall Sahlins and George Dalton challenged standard neoclassical economics to take account of cultural and social factors, and employed Marxian analysis into anthropological study.

His experience of runaway inflation and high unemployment in Weimar Germany led Polanyi to become interested in economics.

Includes an annotated bibliography of Polanyi's publications.

Michael Polanyi made such creativity the centerpiece of his discussion of methodology.

Polanyi added that the scientist often merely follows intuitions of "intellectual beauty, symmetry, and 'empirical agreement'".

Polanyi defends a free society not on the negative grounds that we ought to respect "private liberties", but on the positive grounds that "public liberties" facilitate our pursuit of objective ideals.

Polanyi further asserted that all knowledge is personal and therefore the scientist must be performing a very personal if not necessarily subjective role when doing science.

Polanyi held that science requires moral commitments similar to those found in religion.

Polanyi noted what had happened to the study of genetics in the Soviet Union once the doctrines of Trofim Lysenko had gained the backing of the State.

Polanyi was invited to give the prestigious Gifford Lectures in 1951-2 at Aberdeen.

The reductionistic attempt to reduce higher-level realities into lower-level realities generates what Polanyi calls a moral inversion, in which the higher is rejected with moral passion.

The Way of Discovery: An Introduction to the Thought of Michael Polanyi.

When the Hungarian Soviet Republic was overthrown, Polanyi emigrated to Karlsruhe in Germany, and was invited by Fritz Haber to join the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Faserstoffchemie in Berlin.