Polanyian Footnotes to “From Biology to Consciousness to Morality”

Tradition and Discovery 30 (3):22-30 (2003)
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This brief response to Goodenough and Deacon’s essay “From Biology to Consciousness to Morality” sets forth Michael Polanyi’s criticism of evolutionary ideas of his day. It analyzes Polanyi’s approach to biology and suggests there are affinities with the provocative evolutionary sketch Goodenough and Deacon provide of the development of the human capacity for moral experience

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10.5840/traddisc2003/200430340

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