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A Comparative Study of the Epistemology of Polanyi and Chuang-tzu

박성일 1,  윤성철 2

1중국 호남사범대학교
2한국교원대학교

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The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze some common understandings between Polanyi and Chuang-tzu in epistemology across two thousand years from East and West. Polanyi and Chuang-tzu denied the objectivity of knowledge and gave attention to personal cognition. They focused on the relationship between language and meanings, and especially gave attentions to the meanings under language symbols. They distinguished the knowledge into two types according to whether or not meanings are conveyed by the linguistic. They declared that the articulate knowledge was the tip of an iceberg while inarticulate knowledge was the part underneath the water. Polanyi named the “inarticulate knowledge” as Tacit Knowledge while Chuang-tzu named it as a “grand knowledge”. They thought that the inarticulate knowledge forms the grand knowledge basis. Based on those understandings, Polanyi explained the ways and means of cognition in term of “dwell in”, and Chuang-tzu explained the ways and means of cognition by “Lethe”, “empty static”, “communicate minds”, “Peripateticism”, “oneness of Heaven and Man”, “beauty” in turn. Polanyi and Chuang-tzu especially emphasized physical thinking and the logic of feelings in cognitive process. This study does a further analysis for the radical reason of those common understandings and significance. We can find that the common understandings are from the common world view, common way of thinking and common purpose of epistemology radically. This study can be helpful for teachers to more deeply understand the principle and method of teaching in educational practice.

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