Filosofie românească

Romanian philosophy draws its juice from Zalmoxian metaphysics and ancestral myths (the myth of human sacrifice and the myth of tragic destiny). It is known that the Romanian is a mioritic, and the mioritic vision is one of the characteristic expressions of the archaic communion with nature. Therefore, it is said that Romanians are frugal, religious, tolerant, altruistic, humane, showing a special interest in philosophical thinking. Along with folklore philosophy, a cultured philosophy also developed in Romanian culture. This is imposed together with the Teachings of Neagoe Basarab to his son Teodosie (1512). Romanian philosophical thought was, for many centuries, influenced by Byzantine and Greek culture. Starting with the year 1818, Gh. Lazăr opens in Bucharest, in the cells of the "St. Sava" Monastery, the first Romanian school in the "language of the motherland" where philosophy according to Kant will be studied. During this period, what we call the professorial phase of Romanian philosophy develops, which begins with the organization of higher educational institutions, according to the Western model. In the interwar period, Romanian philosophy reaches its own consciousness, and Romanian thinkers manage to elaborate theories and metaphysical systems in the public space here. In tandem with the scientist-rationalist philosophy, professed by Maioresian thinkers, we meet two other trends, one that has its metaphysical center in the mystery hidden from the depths of Romanian ethnicity (L. Blaga, V. Băncilă, Petru P. Ionescu) and another, mystical-religious, which is best illustrated by Nae Ionescu and Nichifor Crainic. The Marxist-Leninist philosophy that was imposed on us by "our older brother from the East" managed to eliminate any free philosophical creation and prevented, for almost five decades, the development of the authentic Romanian philosophical spirit. Adrian Michiduța