Vilniaus universiteto Filosofijos fakultetas ir VU FSMD kviečia į viešą svečio – prof. Andy Hamilton (Durhamo Universitetas, Jungtinė Karalystė) – paskaitą "Conservatism and the Nature of Tradition", kuri vyks 2025-11-12, 17.30 val., VU Filosofijos fakulteto 201 auditorijoje (Universiteto g. 9, Vilnius).
Prof. Andy Hamilton moksliniai interesai apima estetiką, politinę filosofiją, sąmonės filosofiją, Johno Stuarto Millio bei Ludwigo Wittgensteino filosofiją. Jis taip pat tyrinėja meno, tradicijos ir racionalumo sąsajas, taip pat analizuoja, kaip kultūrinės praktikos ir intelektinės tradicijos formuoja mūsų vertybines bei pažintines nuostatas.
As Muñoz memorably comments, "Traditionalism …though often confused with tradition, is not really tradition but its ideology." That is, all societies have traditional beliefs, but only some societies have a traditionalist attitude to them. I wish to advocate "tradition without traditionalism." But what is tradition? There is a surprising lack of philosophical analysis. The received model is Max Weber's, who treats it as unself-conscious and non-rational; hence David Armstrong's excellent analysis, according to which "a tradition cannot be adopted nor does it spread. It is handed on." The opposed view is Alasdair MacIntyre's rationalist one. However, MacIntyre offers no analysis of "tradition" as such, and mis-diagnoses liberalism as over-rationalistic, and conservatism as anti-rationalistic. My view is that MacIntyre ignores the existence of non-intellectual traditions – and so ignores their transmission by osmosis – while Weber ignores the existence of intellectual ones. Conservatism has a traditionalist ideology; liberalism can rest on tradition without being traditionalist.
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