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Our emerging world system is bringing the great traditions and cultures it has spawned into ever more intimate and dangerous contact. Langan argues that we must struggle toward a unity of discourse respectful of genuine experiences of varying civilizations if we are to live peacefully on one planet.
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Tradition and Authenticity in the Search for Ecumenic Wisdom
author
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Langan, Thomas.
publisher
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University of Missouri Press
isbn10 | asin
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0826208002
print isbn13
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9780826208002
ebook isbn13
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9780826260987
language
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English
subject
Methodology, Truth, Cultural relativism, Authenticity (Philosophy) , History--Philosophy, Tradition (Philosophy) , Civilization, Modern--20th century, Wisdom.
publication date
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1992
lcc
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B53.L333 1991eb
ddc
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140
subject
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Methodology, Truth, Cultural relativism, Authenticity (Philosophy) , History--Philosophy, Tradition (Philosophy) , Civilization, Modern--20th century, Wisdom.
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Tradition and Authenticity in the Search for Ecumenic Wisdom
Thomas Langan
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Copyright 1992 by The Curators of the University of Missouri University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65201 Printed and bound in the United States of America All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Langan, Thomas. Tradition and authenticity in the search for ecumenic wisdom / Thomas Langan. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8262-0800-2 (alk. paper) 1. Methodology. 2. Authenticity (Philosophy) 3. History Philosophy. 4. Tradition (Philosophy) 5. Civilization, Modern20th century. 6. Wisdom. I. Title. B53.L333 1991 140dc20 91-32300 CIP
This paper meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48, 1984.
Designer: Rhonda Gibson Typesetter: Connell Zeko Type & Graphics Printer: Thomson-Shore, Inc. Binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc. Typeface: Bem
Page vii
To four thinkers who have offered friendly encouragement along the way, In Memoriam: Etienne Gilson Martin Heidegger Eric Voegelin Hans Urs yon Balthasar
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
I. Explicit Tradition in the Pursuit of Authenticity
1. On Finding the Way
11
2. A Space for Authenticity
29
3. The Structure and Kinds of Explicit Tradition
51
4. The Truth and Faithfulness of Traditions and Institutions
89
5. The Bad and Good Senses of Tradition
116
II. The Place of Traditions in the Emerging World System
6. The Elements of the World System
131
7. The Relevant Explicit Traditions
142
8. A Single Wisdom from Various Traditions
176
III. Tradition and Authenticity
9. The Ultimate Structures and the Problem of Ideology
187
Appendix A: Glossary
213
Appendix B: Combinations of Tradition, Institution, and Situation
219
Appendix C: Major Explicit Traditions Influencing the World System
220
Index
233
Page ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Five thoughtful critics have, at one time or another, raised issues and suggested improvements in this volume: Professor Janine Langan, my wife; Dr. Michel Vaillant, retired director of the Paris Research Laboratories of Pechiney-St. Gobain and distinguished chemist and philosopher of science, who took special pains with the sections on truth, especially what I said about the methods of science; and my assistants, Mr. Hugh Miller, Miss Christina Banman, and Mr. Bruce Stewart, all of whom have inspired sections of the book. Mr. Stewart's insights are woven into the entire text, and he is helping to complete subsequent volumes of my project. Several excellent pages about the foundation of the state were drafted by Mr. Miller. Almost a generation of students in my Philosophy of History class at the University of Toronto have suffered through various stages of the development of this project. Thanks to all for their help, encouragement, and insight.
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INTRODUCTION
Around us we see a highly technological urban society, obscuring nature and disorienting the hurrying inhabitants of the metropolitan canyons. Here we find the image of a "liberated person," especially the self-made, self-directing, instantaneous success. "Therapeutic man," as Phillip Rieff calls the denizen of this latest mode of life, is fascinated with self-development. This he understands as some kind of psychic recipe for success, or failing that, at least a means of lessening the pain of loneliness. Is this not the inevitable lot of those supermen whose destiny it is to forge for themselves the sense of existence? "Save yourself by giving yourself grace," exhorted Nietzsche.1 Curious that somehow the therapist, of all people, gets mixed up in this heroic process of pulling oneself up by the bootstraps.
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