Logic of Liberty (Polanyi - paperback)

Author: Michael Polanyi

ISBN: 9780865971837

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

A chemist and member of a family renowned for its learning in several disciplines, Michael Polanyi experienced first-hand the horrors of totalitarian government and worldwide war. He argued that centrally planned organizations—or governments—based solely on the methods of science threaten to foreclose a full human knowledge of the mysteries of existence and therefore pose a direct threat not only to academic freedom but also to social and political liberty.