"Short/Long View"

Spanish translation: una vista general y una más detallada

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English term or phrase:	"Short/Long View"
Spanish translation:	una vista general y una más detallada
Entered by:	Gabriela Rodriguez

17:39 Apr 19, 2005

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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / ensayo critico

English term or phrase: "Short/Long View"

El termino aparece en una critica al libro de Allen Tate"Remarks on the Southern Religion"
"...according to tate, there is two views about religion, the first is the "Short View" and the second is the "Long View"

berny

una vista general y una más detallada

Explanation:
se me ocurre, comparando "plano corto y largo" que es "short y long view"

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Gabriela Rodriguez
Argentina
Local time: 15:59

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una vista general y una más detallada

Gabriela Rodriguez

visión de lo inmediato / del largo plazo.

Walter Landesman

visiOn corta / visiOn larga O visiOn concreta / visiOn abstracta

Refugio

Punto de vista / perspectiva a corto/largo plazo

Caro Friszman

Discussion entries: 1

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1 min confidence:

Punto de vista / perspectiva a corto/largo plazo

Explanation:
Es posible que se trate de esto, aunque habría que ver de qué se trata cada uno para estar seguros.

Caro Friszman
Argentina
Local time: 15:59
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Spanish
PRO pts in category: 141

9 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

una vista general y una más detallada

Explanation:
se me ocurre, comparando "plano corto y largo" que es "short y long view"

Gabriela Rodriguez
Argentina
Local time: 15:59
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 7

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21 mins confidence:

short / long view visión de lo inmediato / del largo plazo.

Explanation:
ok

Walter Landesman
Uruguay
Local time: 15:59
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 84

31 mins confidence:

short / long view visiOn corta / visiOn larga O visiOn concreta / visiOn abstracta

Explanation:
Tate apparently uses the terms in a very personal way, not the usual meaning of the expressions. By 'short view' he means looking at concrete events; by 'long view' he means looking at history in the abstract. Here is the text in question:

<<Tate offers an interesting discussion about history, where he draws a parallel between the two views of history and the two parts of religion. Tate argues that history can be seen as a series of concrete events or as an abstraction, a generality. The former view Tate calls the "Short View" and the latter the "Long View." The Short View is specific, about specific men who performed specific events. The decisions and acts of these men were dictated by their social mores or with what knowledge they possessed at the time. However, the Long View discounts the specifics and insists that every civilisation follows a certain logical path, one that is at best, shadowy; at worst, non-existent. This view removes all of the distinctions between the past civilisations, and to make a judgement that any one culture was better than another is short of madness. The Long View then is anti-cultural and "the destroyer of Tradition." Or as Tate puts it: "since the Christian myth is a vegetation rite, varying only in some details from countless other vegetation myths, there is no reason to prefer Christ to Adonis." The Short View insists that there is a difference between the historical Jesus and Adonis and that Biblical doctrine demands that the unique Jesus Christ be accepted completely, and not just the half that resembles Adonis.

Tate seems to think that our accepting Jesus over Adonis is a paradox. Again, Tate is arguing from tradition, which is effective only if it is not coerced. Indeed, Tate correctly states that tradition must be spontaneous and automatic in application. As soon as we acknowledge that one tradition is just as good as another, then we have adopted the Long View. More specifically, the moment we concede that the American tradition is as valid as the Confederate tradition, we have lost our specific culture with its concrete ideals by adopting a pragmatic society of abstractions and slogans. The paradox seems to be that the body of doctrine that is believed by faith must be defended by agents that seek its destruction--human reason and science; the one being practical; the other, mystic.>>

Refugio
Local time: 11:59
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English
PRO pts in category: 103

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