Archive for December, 2006
A. MacIntyre: Aquinas and the Rationality of Tradition
MacIntyre provides two different characterizations of Thomas, first as someone who understood philosophical activity of the chief of craft, and second as someone who forward two differnet traditions, merged them into one and provided direction for still further development of new unified tradition.
A. MacIntyre : Tradition and Translation
A precondition of the adherents of two different traditions understanding those tradition must be that they share standards of rational evaluation so that they are able to understand one another. Translability in their views entails commensurability. Adherents are first to indentify within new language. Important is to recognize what cannot be said in the new language, which is so far at the particular time untranslatable.
