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On Progress, Tradition, and Continuity
A philosophical reflection on the tensions between progress and tradition and their resolution through continuity All too often, the notions of progress and tradition alike are swallowed into the ideologies that make of them principles both absolute and opposed to one another. Put otherwise, when progressivism and traditionalism come to prevail, we often lose not…
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Whose Tradition? Which Nostalgia?
Our next Philosophical Happy Hour continues our discussion of modernity. We turn to the topics of tradition and nostalgia, with a focus on the potential role of nostalgia in the increasing number of “return to tradition” and “create a new tradition” movements arising within contemporary societies. Though “modernity” is a difficult term to define, it…