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- Title
Discipleship and Tradition in the Romanian Philosophical Culture.
- Authors
AFLOROAEI, Ştefan
- Abstract
As we know, that discipleship, with the presence of those people by which it is concretely achieved and with its retake every new generation, may account for the alive and proper flow of a tradition. In this respect, I will consider such situations that may be deemed as relevant for the progress of philosophy in our cultural milieu. I will refer, for instance, to Dimitrie Cantemir and his relationship to scholars of his time, to the junimist period and the disciples of Maiorescu (in particular Rădulescu-Motru and Petrovici), to the generation of Eliade and Noica and their search for new existential reference points. One may ascertain, from Cantemir to the present, at least two types of discipleship, a technical one, related to a school or academy, and a life-concerning one, thus with ethic, existential orientation. At the same time, one may distinguish three situations concerning the relationship between mentor and disciple: first, the personal meeting of a mentor in the environment of one's own language or culture; then the orientation towards the mentor beyond, from an already established culture; lastly, the need to take a certain philosophical problem on one's own. The tension between some local cultural exigencies and the ones asserted in the Western milieus is still present today. They actually remake what might be called the "situation-in-theinterval" of the philosophical consciousness, for instance between the modern discourse and the patristic teaching ("between Kant and Dionysius the Areopagite", as Blaga says), between the established language of philosophy in an epoch and the mother tongue, and between the alert course of history and the traditional one. This fact in and of itself does not advertise any special glory, or conversely, any form of historical failure. The difficulties experienced in this respect - as real and obvious as they may be - may not justify a radical breed of skepticism with respect to the philosophical culture of this region.
- Subjects
CHRISTIAN life; CONSCIOUSNESS; FATHERS of the church
- Publication
Hermeneia: Journal of Hermeneutics, Art Theory & Criticism, 2018, Issue 20, p5
- ISSN
1453-9047
- Publication type
Article