{"id":739,"date":"2024-06-04T11:38:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T11:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/the-idea-of-inevitable-progress-versus-archaism\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T11:38:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T11:38:27","slug":"the-idea-of-inevitable-progress-versus-archaism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/the-idea-of-inevitable-progress-versus-archaism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Idea of Inevitable Progress versus Archaism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Philosophers and theologians alike should heed a distinction I found in Henri de Lubac&#39;s magisterial <em>The Mystery of the Supernatural<\/em> (Herder and Herder, 2001, originally published in French in 1965, p. 18):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Lastly, returning to the essence of an older position can never be purely and simply a return. Archaism . . . of this kind is always deceptive. It is as illusory, in the reverse sense, as the idea of inevitable progress.&#0160; &quot;Those who wrote before us are not our masters, but our leaders&quot; [<em>non domini nostri sed duces fuerunt<\/em>]. (Guibert de Tournai, &quot;De modo addiscendi,&quot; <em>Revue neo-scholastique<\/em>, 1922 : 226)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophers and theologians alike should heed a distinction I found in Henri de Lubac&#39;s magisterial The Mystery of the Supernatural (Herder and Herder, 2001, originally published in French in 1965, p. 18): Lastly, returning to the essence of an older position can never be purely and simply a return. Archaism . . . of this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/the-idea-of-inevitable-progress-versus-archaism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Idea of Inevitable Progress versus Archaism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-of-the-mind","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}