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.Numer został przygotowany przy wsparciu Ministerstwa Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego
