Abstract

Everything in Ion Ghica's correspondence, “Letters to Vasile Alecsandri”, is "in nuce", it belongs to a “beginning” that promises everything without concluding anything. Very little of what these letters contain provides complete pictures, concepts or truths within the limits of any accredited discipline. Everything is to be found in the course of this correspondence, the most extensive, and famous in the Romanian culture: sketches of history, outlines of political philosophy, philosophy of history, legislation, pleadings for a political regime and its ideologies, views on administration, revolution, reforms. Nothing is missing, just as nothing is carried through. Fortunately, there are premises and logic revealed for each. What I intended in “Unanswered Letters” was to show how from simple ideas, sketches or attempts one can get the full description of ideality.

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