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| Translator's Preface | |
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| Translator's Introduction Reflections on Tradition and the Philosophical Act in Josef Pieper | |
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| Is Tradition Anti-Historical? | |
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| Not change, but preservation | |
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| Pascal's thesis on the two genres of science: physics and theology | |
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| The difficulty of an initial orientation. The silence of the philosophical dictionaries. Ignoring ordinary linguistic usage. | |
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| The Basic Elements of the Concept “Tradition” | |
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| The partners in the act of transmitting. The tradendum. Tradition is not discussion. | |
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| Tradition and teaching. “Transmettre” and “handing down.” | |
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| On the one hand, learning; on the other, accepting what has been handed down. | |
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| Historical knowledge of the tradita may be an obstacle to tradition. | |
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| Tradition does not become obsolete with passing time or increasing knowledge. | |
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| Tradition and cultural progress. Pure preservation and memory. | |
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| Tradition and Authority | |
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| Tradition and authority. | |
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| Who are “the ancients”? The platonic answer: the first recipients of a divinely vouched for proclamation. | |
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| The “ancients” and the prophets. | |
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| Revelation and sacred tradition. | |
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| The contents of tradition. The binding authority of tradition. | |
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| Is There Only Sacred Tradition? | |
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| The binding authority of “secular” traditions. | |
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| Tradition and traditions. | |
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| Authentic consciousness of tradition makes one free and independent in the face of “conservatisms.” | |
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| The business of theology; the interpretation of sacred tradition. The believer is not interested in theology, but in the Word of God. | |
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| Where Is Sacred Tradition Historically Found? | |
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| First: the doctrinal tradition of Christianity. | |
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| Second: the myths of pre- and non-Christian peoples. Myths as echoes of the original revelation. What reason did Socrates have to believe the “ancients&r“dquo;? The fertility of God's word. | |
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| Third: unconscious existential certainties. Memoria: trans-psychological and super-individual. | |
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| Language as traditum. “Traditionalism.” | |
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| Gratitude and the consciousness of tradition. | |
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| Sacred Tradition and Philosophy: Inclusion of the Tradita | |
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| Philosophizing means neither the practice of tradition nor its interpretation. | |
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| Contemporary philosophy and the tradita of the sacred tradition. | |
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| Two ways to eliminate them: jean-Paul Sartre's anti-tradition and “scientific philosophy.” “An increasingly empty seriousness” (Karl Jaspers) and “ empty freedom” Viacheslav Ivanov). | |
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| The true unity of mankind is based on participation in the sacred tradition. | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |