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Meaning (Gifford Lectures)
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1947
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- Reg 33:4
- 12 pp. in the file. May be more at the Reg.
- Realms of meaning (naive realm)
- 1. Organic level (wisdom of the body)
- 2. Level of inarticulate meaning
- 3. Articulate level (communication)
- 4. Formal level
- 5. Philosophic level.
- 1. Vital functions (bodily domain)
- -- mental domain --
- 2. Tacit intelligence
- 3. Conceptual thought with use of symbols
- 4. Calculus
- "Intelligent functions thus tend to transcend the individuation, mortality and congenital determinateness of selves by created a realm of ideas."
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"Meaning"
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26 May 1970
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- "various stages of MS from Regenstein"
- 6 copies, variously marked up.
- 41:1 "Meaning." Draft of a lecture, May 26, 1970. End of the draft: "Must the transnatural be surpassed by the supernatural? Must there be a recognition of supernatural powers exercised by God in a way that it would make sense to ask God for help in the expectation that he might avert the course of some event which menaces us? I am inclined to doubt it" (20). In draft marked for delivery: "I don't know, but I doubt it."
- 41:2 Another three copies with first sentence: "I am inclined to doubt it."
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Chicago Lectures MP
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1970
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- "Kinds of Self-Centered Integration." copy. 19 pp with markup and insertions by Polanyi for delivery.
- Monika: "Polanyi MS on 'Meaning'"
- "Meaning: A project by Michael Polanyi"
- Monika: 1970?
- 28 pp. First page retyped.
- Monika: "Look at book Meaning: pp. 70, 71, 72. She has a number of insertions written in pencil on the copy. They may represent the differences between this text and the portions that were included in Meaning.
- Chapter 1: From Perception to Metaphor. "The last two lectures ... will deal with Meaning Lost and Meaning Regained."
- Lecture notes, Chicago, May 21, 1969. 8 pp. Drawings used in Meaning.
- 34 pp. Copy.
- "Acceptance of Religion." Soc Th 443, Michael Polanyi, Supplement #4.
- Monika: Chic. 1969
- 13 pp. copy.
- "Some of the Materials Used in the Six Seminars Held by Michael Polanyi for the Committee on Social Thought"
- Spring, 1969, under the Sara H. Schaffner Lectureship.
- 3 pp. copy.
- p. 1
- "From Perception to Metaphor"
- "Works of Art"
- "Visionary Art"
- "Myths, Ancient and Modern"
- Supplements:
- Supplement to "From Perception to Metaphor" (Monika: for Lecs 1+2)
- "Three Stages of Creative Work" (Monika: supplement #2)
- "Notes on the Destruction of Meaning" (Monika: "= supplement #3)
- "Acceptance of Religion" (Monika: "suppl #4)
- p.2
- Sequence of Seminar Topics -- Polanyi
- 1) "Sense-Giving and Sense-Reading" (Monika? "to be found in Knowing and Being")
- 2) "From Perception to Metaphor"
- 3) "Works of Art
- 4) "Visionary Art"
- 5) "Myths, Archaic and Modern"
- 6) "Tacit Logic"
- The second list on this page was produced by a different typewriter--looks to me like Polanyi's.
- 1) "From Perception to Metaphor" 1-28
- 2) "Works of Art 1-34
- 3) "Visionary Art" 1-31
- 4) "Myths, Ancient and Modern" 1-23
- *
- Supplement
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- 5) "Destruction of Meaning" 1-17 (Monika: "suppl 3")
- 6) "Acceptance of Religion" 1-13 (Monika: "suppl 4")
- Monika? "146 pages"
- p. 3
- The Committee on Social Thought announces a series of seminars by Michael Polanyi of Oxford, Sara H. Schaffner Lecturer: "Meaning, Lost and Regained"
- Thursdays
- April 3 "Sense Giving and Sense Reading (MP? 'of Language')"
- 10 "From Perception to Metaphor"
- 17 "Works of Art"
- 24 "Visionary Art"
- May 1 "Myths, Archaic and Modern"
- 8 "Tacit Logic"
- 4:00-6:00 P.M., SE 302, 1126 East 59th Street
- Students wishing to register for the seminars may do so (Soc Th 448)
- (Monika?)
- "Notes on the Destruction of Meaning Supplemn 3"
- "Acceptance of Religion" Supplement 4
- "Social Thought 443 -- M. Polanyi"
- Reg.
- The seminar will meet permanently in Kent 107 from 4-6 P.M., Thurs.
- "Additional Materials for Lectures 1 and 2.
- 6 pp. plus an unidentified copy of a page from a book.
- drawings that turn up in Meaning
- Social Thought 443 -- M. Polanyi (MP? "for No 2)
- "Supplement #2"
- 10 pp. copy.
- Handwritten notes on last page--looks like a note that has been copied on top of the last page.
- 1) Born telling me about "quantum mechanics": "a younger man will be needed"
- 2) "No, that is much too complicated."
- 3) Haber and Einstein attack on theory of adsorption
- 4) my failure to accept my own results refuting Langmuir
- 5) Tod and Robinson far away from ["truth"?]
- Social Thought 443 -- M. Polanyi
- "Supplement #3"
- "Notes on the Destruction of Meaning"
- 17 pp. copy. Handwritten on what was copied: "Draft--Private"
- Lecture 4. "Myths, Ancient and Modern"
- 25 pp. copy; 23 numbered pages. Handwritten on what was copied: "Draft--Private"
- p. 24: Annexe to Lecture 2. "Some Publications on the Integration of Vision and Touch."
- Six articles listed by Walk, Xottenhoff, Kohler, Held, Bower, and Rock and Harris.
- p. 25: copy of first page of "Vibration Tests of a Nine-Story Steel Frame Building," Nielsen, Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division, Feb. 1966.
- By Michael Polanyi. Handwritten on preceding copy: "Private--Draft"
- "Chapter 3. Visionary Art"
- 31 pages. copy.
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