Notes

  1. . Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), pp. 346–48.
  2. . Martin Buber, I and Thou, trans. Walter Kaufman (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970).
  3. . Michael Polanyi and Harry Prosch, Meaning (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975), pp. 74–75.
  4. . Michael Polanyi, “Forms of Atheism, Notes for December Meeting,” 8 October 1948, Collected Papers of Michael Polanyi, Joseph Regenstein Library, Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. The Moot was a group of theologians, philosophers, and educators gathered by J. H. Oldham in 1939 to carry out an intellectual, Christian–oriented exercise on the first principles of our civilization. The most outstanding figures in the group were T. S. Eliot and Karl Mannheim. Polanyi attended several of their three–times–a–year meetings from 1944 to 1948.
  5. . Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, p. 198; Polanyi and Prosch, p. 156.
  6. . Polanyi, “Forms of Atheism,” Sec. 2.
  7. . Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, pp. 59–60.
  8. . Ibid., p. 202.
  9. . Polanyi and Prosch, pp. 57–60.
  10. . Ibid., p. 125.
  11. . Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, p. 198; Polanyi and Prosch, p. 156.
  12. . Michael Polanyi, Text for University of Chicago course Social Theory 443, 1969, mimeographed Supplement #4, “Acceptance of Religion,” p. 13 (kindly provided to William T. Scott by Polanyi in 1970).
  13. . Ibid., p. 12.
  14. . Kathleen Bliss, Hugh O'Neill, and Richard Gelwick (private communications).
  15. . Michael Polanyi, “On the Position of Jews” (address to the Jewish Medical Society, Liverpool, January 21, 1936), Regenstein Library (n. 4 above), p. 13.
  16. . Polanyi to Karl Mannheim, 19 April 1944, Regenstein Library.
  17. . Polanyi to Kasimir Fajans, 5 June 1916, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
  18. . My thanks are due to Magda Polanyi for showing me the baptismal certificate and for her comments. From Hugh O'Neill I learned that Polanyi's connection with Protestantism must have begun after the summer of 1934.
  19. . Polanyi to Gilbert Doan, 3 June 1968, Regenstein Library: “When I wrote ‘Science, Faith and Society,’ I had for some time attended church every Sunday, but I have never been a communicant.” Whether this referred only to the Protestant church he had been attending or also to his Catholic status is not clear.
  20. . Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (n. 1 above), p. 324; MichaelPolanyi, “Faith and Reason,” Journal of Religion  41 (October 1961): 246–47.
  21. . Polanyi to Doan.
  22. . Jeanne Chambaud to William T. Scott, 6 February 1979.