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Perhaps through NOTES TOWARDS A DEFINITION OF CULTURE. Cheers, Peter Dr. Peter C. Montgomery Dept. of English Camosun College 3100 Foul Bay Rd. Victoria, BC CANADA V8P 5J2 [log in to unmask] www.camosun.bc.ca/~peterm -----Original Message----- From: STRUAN WILLIAM JACOBS [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:00 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: ELIOT AND MICHAEL POLANYI ON TRADITION Greetings, My primary interest is in the thought of Michael Polanyi, scientist, epistemologist and social philosopher. In his analysis of science, and of social life, Polanyi assigns an important role to tradition. Analysing science in terms of tradition was path breaking at the time (the 1940s). Polanyi knew Eliot from 1944 or thereabouts through a discussion group - the Moot - that had been formed by a prominent churchman, J. H. Oldham. Polanyi apears to have begun to use the idea of tradition in his analysis of science from the early 40s. I am interested to know whether Eliot's analysis of tradition may have had an influence on Polanyi's application of tradition to science and on Polanyi's actual understanding of tradition. Would any member of the list be able to shed light on this subject for me. Regards, Struan Jacobs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Struan Jacobs Sociology, Arts Deakin University Geelong, Victoria 3217 Australia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~