Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Josef Pieper, Is Tradition Anti-historical?

In the bewilderingly diverse web of the complicated process we call “history” we can distinguish countless different strands. Tradition is one, but it is fundamentally different from all the rest. The first impression it makes is of something completely odd and inappropriate. You might ask whether tradition is not downright anti-historical. . . .

An excerpt from Tradition: Concept and Claim.

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