Leader:
Forteski
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Created on: 30 Aug 2011
Description:
Join Policy: Open
Created on: 30 Aug 2011
Description:
This group is a tribute the Romanian philosopher Constantin Noica (1909-1987). One of the most brilliant philosophers of the twentieth century.
Although Constantin Noica is one of the most representative Romanian philosophers, he is little known in the West. His most important writings have not yet been translated. In the early part of his life he wrote studies in the history of philosophy with particular focus on Descartes, Leibniz and Kant. He went on to contribute to the philosophy of culture, ontology and logic. All his works in these areas can be seen as steps towards the full articulation of his ontological vision. Noica was particularly interested in conceiving an ontology of his own, starting from an analysis of the resources of the Romanian language, in a manner reminiscent of Heidegger. At the same time, he provided Romanian culture with its first pædeutic model in philosophy.
Constantin Noica was born on 25 July 1909 (12 July old style calendar), and died on 4 December 1987. He studied at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Bucharest from 1928 to 1931, graduating with a dissertation on The Problem of the Thing in Itself in Kant. After further studies in France (1938-9), he obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bucharest with the thesis Sketch for the History of `How Something New is Possible’ (Noica 1940). He translated and interpreted the works of Plato, Descartes, Kant and Hegel. In the inter-war period he sympathized with the Legionary Movement – a party of the extreme Right – placing his pen at the service of the movement between September 1940 and February 1941. From 1941 until 1944 he was lecturer in philosophy at the Romanian-German Institute in Berlin. After the Second World War, he suffered forced domicile at Cîmpulung Muscel from 1948 to 1959, and was detained as a political prisoner from 1958 to 1964. He was subsequently employed as a researcher in the Centre for Logic of the Romanian Academy. He spent the last twelve years of his life in the mountain resort of Păltiniş, where he devoted himself entirely to philosophy. This last period saw Noica become the most influential intellectual of post-war Romania, and he has been considered a symbol of intellectual independence ever since. Thanks to his writings, philosophy came to attract a level of interest unprecedented in the history of Romania.
http://compossivel.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/constantin-noica/
Constantin Noica was born on 25 July 1909 (12 July old style calendar), and died on 4 December 1987. He studied at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Bucharest from 1928 to 1931, graduating with a dissertation on The Problem of the Thing in Itself in Kant. After further studies in France (1938-9), he obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bucharest with the thesis Sketch for the History of `How Something New is Possible’ (Noica 1940). He translated and interpreted the works of Plato, Descartes, Kant and Hegel. In the inter-war period he sympathized with the Legionary Movement – a party of the extreme Right – placing his pen at the service of the movement between September 1940 and February 1941. From 1941 until 1944 he was lecturer in philosophy at the Romanian-German Institute in Berlin. After the Second World War, he suffered forced domicile at Cîmpulung Muscel from 1948 to 1959, and was detained as a political prisoner from 1958 to 1964. He was subsequently employed as a researcher in the Centre for Logic of the Romanian Academy. He spent the last twelve years of his life in the mountain resort of Păltiniş, where he devoted himself entirely to philosophy. This last period saw Noica become the most influential intellectual of post-war Romania, and he has been considered a symbol of intellectual independence ever since. Thanks to his writings, philosophy came to attract a level of interest unprecedented in the history of Romania.
http://compossivel.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/constantin-noica/
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