Charles Taylor, Michael Polanyi
and the Critique of Modernity
Charles W. Lowney II
Editor
Charles Taylor,
Michael Polanyi
and the Critique of
Modernity
Pluralist and Emergentist Directions
Editor
Charles W. Lowney II
Hollins University
Roanoke, VA, USA
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A
cknowledgements
We would like to thank the Polanyi Society, especially Walter Gulick,
David Rutledge, Phil Mullins, Andrew Grosso, Paul Lewis other mem-
bers who reviewed submissions for the 2014 Annual Meeting and helped
to make this book possible. We also thank David James Stewart for help
in preparing the manuscript for submission to Palgrave Macmillan.
Chapter
4
, “The Projects of Michael Polanyi and Charles Taylor” by
John V. Apczynski was originally published in Tradition & Discovery: The
Polanyi Society Periodical, 41: 1 (2014).
Chapter
5
, “Authenticity and the Reconciliation of Modernity” by
Charles Lowney was originally published in the Pluralist 4: 1 (2009).
The epilogue chapter, by Charles Lowney, has an abridged version
published under the title “Robust Moral Reasoning: Pluralist or
Emergent?” in Tradition & Discovery 43: 3 (2017).
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c
ontents
1 Introduction: What a Better Epistemology Can Do
for Moral Philosophy
1
Charles W. Lowney II
Part I An Epistemological Revolution
2 Converging Roads Around Dilemmas of Modernity 15
Charles Taylor
3 Dialogue, Discovery, and an Open Future
27
Charles Taylor
Part II Projects, Possibilities, and Challenges
4 The Projects of Michael Polanyi and Charles Taylor 53
John V. Apczynski
5 Authenticity and the Reconciliation of Modernity 71
Charles W. Lowney II
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CONTENTS
6 “Transcendence” in A Secular Age and Enchanted (Un)
Naturalism
93
David James Stewart
Part III Toward a New Modernity: Taylor and Polanyi
in Conversation
7 Polanyi’s Revolutionary Imaginary
119
Jon Fennell
8 Overcoming the Scientistic Imaginary
143
Charles W. Lowney II
9 On Emergent Ethics, Becoming Authentic, and
Finding Common Ground
169
Charles W. Lowney II
10 Taylor and Polanyi on Moral Sources and Social Systems 189
D.M. Yeager
11 The Importance of Engagement
215
Charles Taylor, Jon Fennell, Charles W. Lowney II and
D.M. Yeager
12 Epilogue: Robust Realism: Pluralist or Emergent?
235
Charles W. Lowney II
Index
271
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ditor
And
c
ontributors
About the Editor
Charles W. Lowney II is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hollins
University, Roanoke, Virginia, USA. He received his masters at Boston
College and his doctorate at Boston University. His research involves
understanding tacit knowing (in epistemology) and emergent being (in
metaphysics), and in developing what he calls “emergentist ethics” (in
moral philosophy). Some of his publications include, “Ineffable, Tacit,
Explicable, Explicit: Qualifying Knowledge in the Age of ‘Intelligent’
Machines” (Tradition and Discovery, 38:1, 2011,18–37), “Rethinking
the Machine Metaphor since Descartes: The Irreducibility of Bodies,
Minds and Meanings” (Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 31:3,
2011, 179–192), and “Morality: Emergentist Ethics and Virtue For
Itself ” (TAD, 36:3, 2010, 52–65).
Contributors
John V. Apczynski Professor Emeritus of theology at St. Bonaventure
University in New York, works in the area of contemporary religious
thought. He has used insights based on Polanyi’s theory of personal knowl-
edge to retrieve important features of the Catholic intellectual heritage in
order to address issues arising from scientific and secular assumptions.
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EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
Jon Fennell is Professor Emeritus at Hillsdale College in Michigan,
USA. Author of essays on figures ranging from Rousseau to Rorty and
Leo Strauss to C.S. Lewis, he has in recent years published numerous
studies on the thought of Polanyi. Professor Fennell has a special interest
in the intellectual space where philosophy, politics, and education jointly
intersect. At the center of his variegated endeavors is a persistent interest
in what must be understood, and therefore taught, in order to preserve
the political and moral order of which we are both heirs and stewards.
David James Stewart is an American philosopher, theologian, and ama-
teur baseball player. He earned a Ph.D. in theology from Luther Seminary
in 2016, where his dissertation on Hegel’s speculative philosophy and
Hawking’s quantum cosmology was awarded with distinction. Past work
includes publications on the thought of Carl Jung (Zygon, 2014) and
Michael Polanyi (Tradition & Discovery, 2015). His current research
deals with the relationship of science and theology, the infinitude of the
universe, and the origins of self-conscious subjectivity. Stewart is Assistant
Professor of Theology at St. Catherine University in Minneapolis, MN.
Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill
University, Montreal, Canada. He is the winner of the Templeton Prize
in 2007, and the Kyoto prize in 2008. His many books include the now
classic Sources of Self (1989), and Varieties of Religion Today: William
James Revisited (2002), Modern Social Imaginaries (2004) and A Secular
Age (2007), all of which were products of his 1998–1999 Gifford
Lectures, “Living in a Secular Age.” His work spans across epistemology,
ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of the person, social and political philos-
ophy, intellectual history, and the philosophy of language.
D.M. Yeager holds the Thomas J. Healey, C’64, Family Distinguished
Professorship in Ethical Studies at Georgetown University, Washington
DC, USA. Since earning her doctorate at Duke University under
William H. Poteat, D.M. Yeager has been teaching courses in ethics and
philosophical theology. Her articles have appeared in such journals as
Tradition and Discovery, the Journal of Religion, the Journal of Religious
Ethics, and the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. She has served as
the general editor of two scholarly journals, and in 2018, she will assume
the presidency of the Society of Christian Ethics.
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bbreviAtions
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ooks
of
c
hArles
t
Aylor
(1931)
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DC
Dilemmas and Connections: Selected Essays. Cambridge, MA and London:
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EA
The Ethics of Authenticity. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
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MSI Modern Social Imaginaries. Durham and London: Duke University Press,
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PA
Philosophical Arguments. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1995.
RR
——— and Hubert Dreyfus. Retrieving Realism. Cambridge, MA:
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SS
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity. Cambridge and
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ooks
of
m
ichAel
P
olAnyi
(1891–1976)
KB
Knowing and Being. Edited by Marjorie Grene. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1969.
M
——— and Harry Prosch. Meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago
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PK
Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. Chicago:
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ABBREVIATIONS
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The Study of Man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972 [1959].
TD
The Tacit Dimension. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1966.
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