Abstract
The present European context challenges us to approach the issues of Romanian dignity, humanity and humanism. The purpose of this essay is to emphasize the interpretative and explanatory dimensions of Constantin Micu Stavila’s philosophical thinking focused on the meaning of life and the human destiny, no less on the significance of the Christian personalism that the Romanian-French philosopher has cultivated it. Some questions arise: What is the role of philosophy and religion in understanding the meaning of life? How do we have to consider the human being and by especially the characteristics defining the Human within the Romanian culture? Trying to provide an honest, coherent and enlightening response, the paper is organized into two parts: 1. The mission of Romanian philosophy – attempting to demonstrate that the Romanian culture is integrating itself in the world-wide one seeing that there is an intimate complementarity of philosophy and religion; and 2. Romanian cultural messianism – developing an interpretation of the Romanian folklore according to the topic of the paper.
Highlights
Too little known in the present Romanian philosophical field, Constantin Micu Stavila (1914-2003) was a PhD Professor at the Faculties of Philosophy and Theology in Bucharest (1942-1947)
We approach the issues of Romanian dignity, humanity and humanism in the vision of Constantin Micu Stavila using his anthumous and posthumous works published in Romania and abroad, in France, USA, Germany, Italy, and no less his manuscripts of Paris and Bucharest known as “Constantin Micu Stavila in Ștefan Delureanu Fund” including 9.238 pages as well as tapes and rolls
If we understand by humanism the totality of the representations a people might have about the superior human type, we further aim to present in detail the specific way in which the human being is seen and how it is pictured in the Romanian culture, more precisely, in the Romanian folklore
Summary
Too little known in the present Romanian philosophical field, Constantin Micu Stavila (1914-2003) was a PhD Professor at the Faculties of Philosophy and Theology in Bucharest (1942-1947). We briefly mention some details of his activity related to the French culture and area: between 1970 and 1975, he was a cultural counselor at the Society of French Protestantism, and he taught General Philosophy at the Faculty of Protestant Theology in Paris He organized the well-known Round-Tables of the American Cultural Centre in cooperation with Paul Ricoeur, Gabriel Marcel, Jean Brun, André Dumas, Octavian Vuia, Pierre Emmanuel, Jacques Ellul, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. He was a member of the Philosophy Committee at the National Centre of Scientific Research (1975-1980). During his life Constantin Micu Stavila published over 25 books in the fields of philosophy, history, ethics, and social culture
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