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TRADITION AS A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM. A PRAGMATIC APPROACH
TRADITION AS A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM. A PRAGMATIC APPROACH

Author(s): Paweł Grad
Subject(s): Epistemology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Pragmatism, Theory of Communication
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: rationality; inferentialism; tradition; modernity;

Summary/Abstract: A context of my paper is the debate on reason, tradition and traditional communities, in which this moral and epistemological issues were discussed as a part of general socio-philosophical theory of modernity. In particular I intend to locate my considerations in the context of formal-pragmatic theory of modern communicative rationality developed by Jürgen Habermas and Robert Brandom. I will provide a competitive model of the rationality of tradition by applying a conceptual toolkit of pragmatically oriented analysis to explain practices connected with vocabulary of tradition. I argue that tradition as a communication system has a fully rational structure. My main claim is that communicative structure of tradition has a rational structure of language game. This structure includes defined principles of communication for members of closed tradition-grounded community and rule of inclusion for potential new members. Firstly I consider closely internal principles of communication within the framework of tradition contrasting them shortly with normative-deontic rules of the postenlightenment idea of pragmatic communication discussed by Jürgen Habermas and Robert Brandom. After that I examine the rule of inclusion — the rule, which mediates between closed system of tradition-based community and his environment.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 1-15
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English