Birth Name:

William H. Poteat

Male

Birth Date:

Sat, Apr 19, 1919

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Kaifeng, Henan, China

Age:

105

Zodiac Sign:

Aries

Astrology Data:

Sun

28°

Ari

3'

About William H. Poteat

William H. Poteat (19 April 1919 – 17 May 2000) was an American philosopher, scholar, and charismatic professor of philosophy, religion, and culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1947 to 1957 and at Duke University from 1960 to 1987. During that time he did foundational work in the critique of Modern and Postmodern intellectual culture. He was instrumental in introducing scientist-philosopher Michael Polanyi and his Post-Critical philosophy to the United States. He was a master of the Socratic Method of teaching and identified himself a "practicing dialectician," skilled through the use of irony in "understanding and elucidating conflicting points of view" As a Post-Critical philosopher, he encouraged his students and the readers of his books to recover their authentic selves from the confusing, self-alienating abstractions of modern intellectual life. This task and purpose Poteat came to recognize as profoundly convergent with Michael Polanyi's critique of Modern Critical thought. His teaching and writing also drew upon and combined in new ways the ideas of seminal critics of modern culture such as Pascal, Kierkegaard, Arendt, Wittgenstein (later works), and Merleau-Ponty—whose thinking Poteat came to identify as "Post-Critical" (rather than Postmodern), using a key concept from Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. His papers are archived at the Yale Divinity School Library.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for William H. Poteat: Sun 28 Aries, Moon 9 Sagittarius, Mercury 10 Aries, Venus 2 Gemini, Mars 2 Taurus, Jupiter 9 Cancer, Saturn 21 Leo, Uranus 0 Pisces, Neptune 6 Leo, Pluto 4 Cancer, Sun Sextile Uranus, Sun Conjunct Mars, Mercury Square Jupiter, Mercury Trine Neptune, Venus Semi Sextile Mars, Venus Square Uranus, Mars Sextile Uranus, Mars Square Neptune, Mars Sextile Pluto, Jupiter Semi Square Saturn, Jupiter Conjunct Pluto, Saturn Semi Square Pluto, Uranus Trine Pluto, Neptune Semi Sextile Pluto

Categories related to William H. Poteat: 20th-century American philosophers, April 19 births, North Carolina, 2000 deaths, Continental philosophers, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty, Yale Divinity School alumni, Critics of postmodernism, People from Raleigh, 1919 births, People from Kaifeng, Duke Divinity School faculty