Sensacional ensaio sobre Michael Polanyi, inversão moral e niilismo.
"Polanyi, the scientist, became convinced that the source of the nihilism and self-destruction that he witnessed rested on a false understanding of the nature of knowledge and the act of knowing. He called this false notion of knowledge “Objectivism” and sometimes “Scientism”. This ideal of knowledge elevated methodological doubt as the primary element in dependable knowledge. That which was really real was that which could be known by the dispassionate, distanced, neutral observer on the basis of direct observation. All tradition was to be doubted and was indeed the enemy of truth. The world was divided into a rather small of world of assured “facts” and dubitable “beliefs”. Facts were things that were so well-established by observation and doubt-inspired testing that they were established as public facts and dependable knowledge. Everything else was “belief” or opinion or values. In a free society one is entitled to hold the beliefs one wants but they are clearly an inferior kind of knowledge that must give way before public facts. To assert a belief as universally valid is thought of either as an act of ignorance or an immoral grab for power and perhaps both. Polanyi recognized that this popular understanding of what is objective and therefore trustworthy is deeply flawed and in particular cannot account for science itself and especially for the process of scientific discovery which depends on long schooling in a community of tradition and a passionate faith in the existence of truth. Polanyi thought that Augustine had got it right, “I believe in order to understand,” and that belief was foundational to all knowing and that nothing could be doubted except on the basis of some other belief. There are many other elements in his sophisticated critique of “the modern mind” including his important idea of “tacit knowledge.” But this is enough exposition to get to his important idea of “moral inversion.””
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