Three Notions of Tradition

• Authors: Szacki J.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is intended to bring out the basic understandings of 'tradition' as encountered in the social sciences and the humanities. The first might be termed functional since attention is focused on the function of transmitting in a given community certain elements of culture from generation to generation ('tradition' as transmission). The second might be termed objective since the researcher's attention shifts from the transmission of elements to the elements themselves ('tradition' as heritage). The third might be termed subjective since it is neither the operation of transmission nor the object transmitted that comes to the fore but the attitude of a given generation toward the past, its acceptance of the heritage or its protest against it (simply tradition). The present author is concerned above all with the subjective understanding of tradition that is with those elements of the heritage which are taken over from earlier generations with an emotional engagement on the part of those who adopt them.

Keywords

EN

TRADITION

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Warsaw University, Institute of Philosophy, Institute of Polish Literature and Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 3-4(18)
• Pages: 243-264
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szacki J.

• J. Szacki,

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA03507145