Cultural-anthropological
Cross-cultural fluency that maintains both origin and current configurations.
The Eighteen Convergent Patterns
18. Honouring origin without subscribing to it
He maintains relations to origins he no longer occupies. Origins are not erased in order to constitute a current self, and they are not subscribed to as conditions of one. They are held in honest relation to a self that has moved.
The relational particulars through which this pattern first became visible remain private. This page stays with the form of the pattern and the interpretations it opens.
Read through the lenses
Hermeneutic
Gadamer’s tradition-without-subscription.
Theological-spiritual
Caputo’s religion-without-religion.
Translational-multilingual
Steiner’s cross-cultural translation.