Panar tradition and Pulavar tradition

Beyond Tradition

Freedom, Reason, and Tradition

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Freedom, Reason, and Tradition

It is a piece of idle senthentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, or prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application oflegal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. The real advantage which truth has, consists in th...

Between Tradition and Modernity

Tradition and Creation

I think that contemporary society is like a great, complex network of attitudes, values, and worldviews, in which everything exists within different cultures and environments. This network keeps changing at every moment, with different parties interacting with each other, so that each experience that we come across can become an exciting source and medium for creation. As for music composition,...