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Newbigin on Polanyi: All Knowing Involves Personal Commitment
12 Comments Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen September 5th, 2007 in Knowledge, Lesslie Newbigin, Michael Polanyi, Recent/Contempoary Protestant Thinkers/MovementsIn chapter 3, “Certainty as the Way to Nihilism,” of his book Proper Confidence, Newbigin discusses a number of dualisms that come to the fore in Modernity, and which can (at least on a traditional read) be trace to Descartes. The first is the dualism between the res cogitans and the res extensa. The second and [...]


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