tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846671056195917287.post3445656133577173679..comments2024-03-12T00:51:27.766-04:00Comments on Ground Motive: Stickhandling Tradition: Freedom and Constraint in Religious Lifeadmin1http://www.blogger.com/profile/16479743334126277132noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846671056195917287.post-21455467510570649532013-06-11T09:30:32.555-04:002013-06-11T09:30:32.555-04:00Thanks for this, Bob. I agree about the two groups...Thanks for this, Bob. I agree about the two groups you name being joined at the hip. Those like Rorty who bridle at tradition for its conversation-stopping potential are in fact reacting to those traditionalists who believe their tradition provides every answer to every possible question, and you are right to say that the former mistakenly allow the latter to define what tradition is or can be. Rorty should know better, though, because, as Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature shows, he has read and internalized a lot of Gadamer.Ron Kuipershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08762890662834794531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846671056195917287.post-34653334521865899772013-06-11T09:22:56.215-04:002013-06-11T09:22:56.215-04:00Nicely done Ron. Hockey, Wittgenstein, tradition ...Nicely done Ron. Hockey, Wittgenstein, tradition all in just a few paragraphs. I have gotten to a very similar place but via a very different route. But I do borrow language from at least one of your intellectual "mentors" from times past. I like to speak of those who view tradition as discussion starter or as discussion stopper. Of course those who view tradition as discussion stopper break down into those who say what already is given in the tradition provides already every possible answer to any possible question and those who say that what is given in any tradition impedes the search for any answer to any question whatsoever. So traditionalists and anti-traditionalists are really joined at the hip; they just draw opposite conclusions about what they share--extant tradition as totality, whereas you and I, I am guessing, would prefer to speak of extant tradition as a pointer toward a future other than as well as in continuity with present experience. Bob Sweetmannoreply@blogger.com