Polanyi on “Public Liberty” and “Dynamic Order”. Dr. Phil Mullins
The best-known doctors and professors presented their work on the Michael Polanyi - Conference (pre-) thinker of liberalism in the 20th Century in the Theodor-Heuss-Akademie, Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Gummersbach FOR FREICHEIT. The Dr. Phil Mullins published his work.
Dr. Phil Mullins(IINews) - The best-known doctors and professors presented their work on the Michael Polanyi - Conference (pre-) thinker of liberalism in the 20th Century in the Theodor-Heuss-Akademie, Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Gummersbach FOR FREICHEIT. The Dr. Phil Mullins published his work.
"Michael Polanyi’s writings articulate an interesting vision of a liberal society, one that can be mined today to help provide political wisdom. Most of Polanyi’s political ideas are worked out in the decade from 1941-1951, the wartime years and shortly thereafter. Polanyi comes to UK in 1933 and his interest in social matters deepened as he studied economics and took a leadership role opposing the Marxist-inspired British “planned science” movement which sought to centrally control scientific research.
Polanyi argued the good society (or what he calls a liberal society) is largely constituted by many “systems of dynamic order” which are self-governing sub-cultural groups who rely on the spontaneous mutual adjustment of members of the group. An ongoing public conversation among group members provides for such adjustment so that the tradition on which a particular sub group relies is continually modified.
A “dynamic order” is thus not organized like a “corporate order” which relies on explicit commands and a chain or command; Polanyi did recognize some parts of society (e.g., the army) required corporate order. Polanyi saw the community of research scientists as a premier example of a “dynamic order” but he argued that case law interpretation is also a “dynamic order” (or a “system of dynamic order”) and that there are many somewhat similar orders that constitute the main fabric of society.
Government must nurture such orders and must recognize that social goods emerge through the many systems of dynamic order in society. Polanyi emphasizes the intellectual and cultural orders in society since they are the vehicle promoting the growth of thought in society (a matter of primary importance in Polanyi’s liberal society) but he also recognized the dynamic economic order as important. The economic order is a somewhat deficient dynamic order compared to intellectual or cultural dynamic orders since it relies only on competition and participants do not serve ideal ends.
Polanyi defined “totalitarian society” as a society in which all decisions about social goods are made by government. Totalitarian government does not recognize the important role played by the intermediary systems of dynamic order. Polanyi distinguished “public” and “private” liberty and argued that modern societies should pay much more attention to this distinction.
Totalitarian societies recognize only private liberty which is the relative degree of freedom an individual has to do as he or she pleases. Liberal society recognizes, promotes and protects public liberty which is concerned with duties and obligations that persons accept as members of a particular dynamic order. Each dynamic order has “transcendent ideals” and the novice serving an apprenticeship in a “dynamic order” assimilates these values as he or she assimilates the skills and practices of a particular order. "
Professor of Philosophy (B.A., Vanderbilt University; M.A., M.Div., Pacific School of Religion; Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union) Professor Emeritus History, Philosophy and Geography Department Missouri Western State University Saint Joseph, Missouri. Recent and Current Professional Society Responsibilities Editor, Tradition & Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical, since. Webmaster for Polanyi Society http://www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/polanyi/, since site inception in 1997 Co-Chair, “Polanyi’s Post-Critical Thought and The Rebirth of Meaning” Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, June 8-10, 2001 Co-Chair, “Personal Knowledge at Fifty”Conference, Loyola University, Chicago. June 13-16, 2008. Natalia Eitelbach.
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