Wiązanie rozumu i nierozumność zerwania (Oświecone średniowiecze i mało oświecone oświecenie)

Abstract

Tradition and innovation are dialectically interrelated. On the one hand they are contradictory, but on the other they are mutually related. In Max Scheier's term man is bestia cupiditissima rerum novarum. This creature, desirous of new things, is immersed in time. To preserve his identity in the changing transitoriness he must hold to tradition. It is tradition that keeps the past up-todate and will update the present in the future. Tradition appears in this perspective as a way of uniting ecstasies of time, not so much retreating towards the past, but enriching the present and protecting it against expiry. Tradition gives meaning to innovation, while innovation is possible owing to tradition.