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| Tradition: The term tradition refers to customs, habits, beliefs, rituals or practices that are passed down from generation to generation. They form the cultural heritage of a community, a family, a society or a scientific community and are often deeply rooted in the history and values of a group. See also culture, cultural tradition._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Romanticism on Tradition - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 280 Tradition/Romanticism/Gadamer: If it is clear to the Enlightenment that all tradition, which presents itself before reason as impossible, i.e. as nonsense, is only historically, i.e. can be understood in the decline to the mode of conception of the past, thus the historical consciousness that came up with Romanticism means a radicalization of the Enlightenment, because for the historical consciousness (>Historism/Gadamer) the exceptional case of irrational tradition has become the general situation. A sense that is generally accessible through reason is so little believed that the entire past, yes, in the end even all thinking of contemporaries is finally only understood. Thus, the romantic critique of the Enlightenment itself leads to Enlightenment by unfolding as a historical science and drawing everything into the maelstrom of historism. The fundamental discrediting of all the prejudices that the experiential pathos of the new natural science linked with the Enlightenment becomes universal and radical in the historical Enlightenment. Gadamer I 285 Tradition/Romanticism/Gadamer: [Romanticism] conceives tradition in contrast to Gadamer I 286 reasonable freedom and sees in it a historical givenness of the kind of nature. Whether one wants to fight it in a revolutionary way or preserve it, it appears as the abstract opposite of free self-determination, since its validity does not require any reasonable reasons, but determines us without question. >Reason, >Nature, >History._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Romanticism Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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