BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY
BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY

Summary/Abstract: Spiritual situation of modern man to a great extent reminds on the situation within which was caught primordial Adam's spirit while was floating between clay and water or between lost heavenly and not yet discovered earthly Paradise. That was, certainly, age of painful homeless whose damnedness follows Adam's offspring of today whichever meridian of globe he was inhabiting. Out of truth, contemporary man is in much more complexed existential situation than it was his paradisiac parent. The latter one had not been charged with epistemological and existential charge of tradition, neither the good one nor the bad one, while the former deadly moans under the charge of some kind of traditionality for which he is inapt even to chose its name, and which one, from the other hand, is not more a symbol of his origin, nor a sign of his earthy phenomenology. He is, simply, neither a traditional man, nor a man of tradition. On the contrary, he is a man of an instant, the instantaneous nameless man - homo modernus (Ibn Waqt).

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