摘要：Using the ideas of Clifford Geertz, Adolf Portmann, Charles Taylor, and others, I seek to develop and expand
Polanyi’s account of language and its role in our human way of being bodily mindful in the world. The expansion
of Polanyi’s ideas on language in the evolutionary rise of Homo sapiens and in the moral and mental
development of the child does two things that I believe are important: (1) obviates the need to appeal to an
incorporeal thinking substance - i.e., dualism - to ground the reality of human transcendence, and (2) highlights
the place of natural language in the irreducibility of human mentality.
