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Tradition is Smarter Than You Are
In the Lockean or Cartesian dispensation that Americans tacitly adopt, tradition is subject to a hermeneutic of suspicion. Our default is to think that inherited wisdom does little more than perpetuate forms of oppression, offered in bad faith as so-called knowledge. But cutting ourselves off from the past in this way, out of a determination not to... See more
Natural Selection is no Hero’s Journey, no Deity Designing
And sadly we’ve cocooned ourselves so far from the pressures, the larger forces at ecological play we (we being the privileged few in wealthy, prevalent cultures, the 1/3rd or Global North ….) have actually de-volved as a result. Our social licence is writ large with one basic, infantile
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Any true and living tradition must be at once both the subject and the object of a constant and pious hermeneutical retrieval that, guided by an awareness of the history and logic of what has gone before, seeks to discover the tradition’s dialectical unity and rationality ever anew. 128
David Hart Tradition and Apocalypse 2022
David Hart Tradition and Apocalypse 2022