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Hi Mark, thank you for your excellent and thought-provoking comments. You’re exactly right about the essay author and the weaknesses in his thinking; he doesn’t do justice to Polanyi, who is very much in harmony with your thinking and the writers and philosophers you cite. I’m a big fan of Jaspers, too.

You clearly know your subject and your comments deserve a considered response. I absolutely love the fascinating excerpt you included below and I’d like to comment further on it, too.

This forum isn’t the ideal place to continue our discussion. My email is coffman@alameda.net.au. If you’re willing to reach out to me directly I’d be very glad to continue this conversation. Very best, Chris

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Mark Kennedy's avatar

Thanks for the invitation, Chris. I'll be happy to take you up on it and we can introduce ourselves to each other properly, though probably not today (I have a couple of appointments this afternoon and another tomorrow morning). I've written down your email address, so if you want to remove it from your post it might be prudent to do so.

Always nice to meet a fellow Jaspers fan (or at least so I've always presumed: if memory serves, you may actually be the first), especially one who's as full of compliments as you are.

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Chris Coffman's avatar

Sounds good Mark. BTW I don’t know if you follow the excellent Substack The Upheaval but he had an especially good post to day, and one that’s relevant to our discussion: https://open.substack.com/pub/theupheaval/p/upheaval-interview-matthew-b-crawford?r=exi3h&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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