Tradição
The Enlightenment's distinction between faith in authority and using one's reason is, in itself, legitimate. If the prestige of authority displaces one's judgment, then authority is in fact a source of prejudices (pp 279) It seems to me, however, that there is no such antithesis between tradition and reason...The fact is that in tradition there there always is an element of freedom and of history itself. Even the most genuine and pure tradition does not persist because of the inertia of what has existed...For this reason, only innovation and planning appear to be the result of reason. But this is an illusion (pp. 281)
O 'conservador' Hans-Georg Gadamer, em Verdade e Método.
