摘要：The political passages in Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge are an integral part of his arguments against
‘objectivism’ and for a post-critical, personalist, fiduciary and fallibilist philosophy. This paper elaborates
the social and political implications of Polanyi’s emphasis upon acceptance of one’s situation and
the exercise in it of a sense of responsibility to transcendent
ideals, as against attempts to start with a clean slate, to overcome all imperfections and to find some
simple rule for political policy. Prescriptive duties and rights, and mutual trust and solidarity, are the
bases of politics, and responsible action must start with them. But much of modern politics expresses a
Gnostic impatience of our created and finite existence which results in arbitrary commitment to some
radical and destructive ideology.
关键词：ultimate and proximate beliefs, Bosanquet, Edmund Burke, Descartes, Heidegger,
ideology, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Marx, J.S. Mill, concrete and constructive philosophy, fiduciary philosophy,
Michael Polanyi, concrete and constructive politics, prescription, sense of responsibility, Rousseau,
Sartre, situation, tradition.
