Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical

Volume 29, Issue 1, 2002/2003

Michael Polanyi’s Epistemology Of Science And Its Implications For A Problem In Moral Philosophy

Ethical particularists allege that there are, on account of epistemological limitations, no such things as general moral principles. This paper defends the existence of general moral principles by adapting and appropriating Polanyi’s epistemology of science to this problem in moral philosophy.