Traditio: a pause of history

This substantive is by now in common language, and his meaning is common acknowledge hence this essay hasn’t motive, but I want consider that we don’t is tradition; the answer to this question is elementary, it is the translated in other time that is past, end of this essay!, But are we sure of this definition? Because the tradition, from Latin acceptation means give, and the tie to the common sense is lost, because the connection isn’t. The tradition is alone a pause of history, that can occurs in every time and can persists some years or decades; but what is this time, when has consolidated some customs or opinions, that is from customs, what is this time? Simple it is the pause of history, a period when all is stop, a period that during the past was more frequent than this period, because the customs and way of life were very different; and if the tradition have the mean of translation we could have today some memory of medieval past, and to this affirmation, this is the we have again the Medieval or Renaissance tradition is absolutely false, because the answer to this affirmation is the logic consideration, this is: “The Middle age and Renaissance are past”; but how is possible a change of tradition? Simple when a pause is finished, because the customs are changed, the habits are change, because the technology has given new tools the pause is finished, and for it is finished also the tradition; we can’t today recognize the end of traditions in regard past, we can hypothesize that this custom is changed in that decade, we can think it through the art or literature or science, but can alone hypothesize it, because the change of custom is very slender and mute because tied to social, and we can’t know it because the pause of history is very long or short but always silent. We can think that a war could change the social customs, thereupon the Middle age is the shorter traditional period of humankind, because there isn’t a week without a war; but the Middle age is a long period of pause, that is finished for Renaissance, and the Medieval tradition isn’t followed toward the Renaissance, because the laicism, that was already present in Middle age, in 15^th century becomes official, this phenomenal is interpretable how a pause that the humanity has allowed to herself, that when this pause is finished the Renaissance has took alone something of Middle age, it is comparable to our pause from job, we usually don’t bring with us nothing of pause, the same process is for the centuries of history; a pause allows to customs and opinion and other of stabilization of some custom, and more long is time of pause major is tradition, but alone for that period, because after this pause other periods are going to be occur, whereby the pause may is going to be or no; in fact the Middle age is last long pause of humanity, because very much opinions and customs were present and stabilized, but the pause is finished the Renaissance has lost almost everything of Middle age, and that is remained is used with innovations, we can paragon this phenomenal to our sleep, that we can compare to Middle age, a long pause, that ends, the our awake is the Renaissance, in fact the sleep we bring something, may the dreams, but of tire nothing because we have slept, the tradition is similar after the awake, this is the Renaissance, the Middle age, this is the sleep is finished, and a sentence is opportune to this contest: “It is the cryptic and unstoppable spirit of man, this is the history”, in opinion of Leopold von Ranke(1795-1886); and this spirit sometime takes a pause, thereupon the tradition.

Alessandro Lusana