Fanu Duțulescu, psiholog şi filosof

Psychologist, philosopher, jurist, publicist, dramatist and teacher by vocation, Ştefan (Fanu) Duţulescu (1896-1973) was a versatile intellectual, of exemplary scientific probity. Fanu Duţulescu was not an original philosopher, a creator of a philosophical system, nor did he have an extensive work to synthesize his conception of the world, he was a theoretician of philosophical language and a researcher of universal philosophical thought. Author of the Dictionary of Philosophy (1946), Fanu Duţulescu understood that "philosophy is a necessity of thinking, deeply structured in the organization of man, and not, as was commonly believed, that it is made up of artificial creations only of some people's thinking, unrelated to life, elaborated for entertainment or snobbery, as a useless waste of time both for them and for those who research their writings." The philosopher Fanu Duţulescu recognizes the difficulty of understanding some special terms of philosophy - as he also recognizes the "intentionally sought "grandiloquence" of the terms in the writings of some "professional philosophers" - without thereby contradicting our statement: it is not philosophy that is difficult to understand, but the terms used in some philosophical writings". He is not a publisher of philosophical terms, but a realist-rationalist philosopher, convinced that before the work, the instrument of investigation must be created. Those who understand philosophy learn that its purpose is to fix the meaning and price of life, guiding man towards his role: "to spiritualize himself and the Universe in which he lives". Adrian Michiduța