Finally, it is important to ask new questions of the tradition, questions that might allow some women philosophers to play a starring role rather than a walk-on part.
If the evacuation of lived, religious content gave Heidegger access to a temporality more substantial than what was available to the neo-Kantian, formalist tradition, one question remained: How can one preserve the living source of human facticity while removing all connection to its contents?
But dance, more than any other form — and especially modern dance, that idiosyncratic tradition — compels questions of mortality early on.
While President Bush's initiative has roots in American traditions, the question remains whether it can succeed in current circumstances.
But instead of simply carping about students with colleagues in the great faculty-lounge tradition, Ms. Davidson questioned the whole form of the research paper.
The liberty to change your beliefs, reject your traditions and question your religion is what distinguishes individuals from members of an enforced collective.
The Russian president's phone-in session with the nation has become an annual tradition, with questions coming from audience members in the studio and phone calls from around the country.
Tradition is presented as a resource and a provocation for thinking and creativity: whereas sameness is the currency of a conservative conception of tradition, instability, questions and the challenge of otherness are the drivers of Gadamer's more dialogical concept of tradition.
This kind of life is infused with a faith transmitted through elegant ritual and a tradition of question-asking around the study of text and experience.
But even though "Agni Varsha" is set in ancient times and rooted in Hindu traditions, the questions it poses about morality, faith and destiny transcend culture.
