6/7/2023 0 Comments Metadoctor review![]() Bagdasar considered him “the most fruitful creator” of his generation. In this respect, the philosopher Lucian Blaga saw in Băncilă a storm threatening the calm seas of Romanian culture, and the historian of philosophy N. With such a deep imprint in Romanian collective consciousness, Vasile Băncilă forms a special case, mainly because of the quality of the material he produced in excess of five decades, but also because of the intention of building his own original philosophical system. Vasile Băncilă is also the thinker who aimed at the philosophical elevation of the Bărăgan Plain to the level of the undulating Mioritic space of Blaga, considering it in no way inferior to the latter. Therefore, instead of ‘believe and do not investigate’, the student Vasile Băncilă creates another injunction: ‘investigate, believe, stop, forget’!” And if he cannot be in any of them, let him forget. Yes, God is the great and only sufficient reason.” or: “Matter is densified spirit.” The would-be irreconcilability between religion and science is, according to Ion Dur, resolved by Băncilă in an impartial way, since “the complete man needs both, even if he is always in one of them he must not limit himself to religion (‘but there will always remain a coefficient of it’), but study science, stopping where he must, and then believing. This is the only solution to the metaphysical problem.” or: “I am not lost in matter, but in God. Analogy with Jesus Christ incarnate that is why He could also be perfect as a man. After all, Vasile Băncilă is the author of some of the most striking philosophical adages to have ever emerged in our culture, e.g.: “The best metaphysics is religion, and the noblest and ultimate function of philosophy is to introduce one to religion: the ancilla of religion.” or: “Philosophy deals with integral reality based on the idea of the Absolute.” or: “Spirit has existed from eternity both in matter and beyond it. The proportions of Băncilă’s philosophical output and its uniqueness make him a major figure in contemporary Romanian culture whose texts still require a great deal of scholarly research. It appears that Băncilă’s work extends to no less than 32 volumes, 17 of which have already been published. by Vernon Press in 2022, and is an analytical valuation of the original thinking of Vasile Băncilă (1897-1979), a philosopher who was proscribed during the Ceaușescu regime. Vasile Băncilă: An Ethnic-spiritualist Metaphysics Banned by the Totalitarian Regime, the book which makes the object of this review, was published in the U.S. Ion Dur is the recipient of many honours, among them the Mircea Florian Award for Philosophy from the Romanian Academy. He has collaborated with the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Services and appeared on public and private television channels, always indefatigable in promoting highbrow culture in an age of intellectual conformity dominated by consumerism and the triviality of pop culture. He has also published countless essays, book reviews, studies and articles on philosophy, literature, aesthetics, as well as literary and media criticism in various Romanian and international journals. A respected philosopher and academic, Ion Dur has authored over twenty books of essays, as well as monographs of Emil Cioran, Constantin Noica, Nae Ionescu and Horia Stamatu, and collaborated in the translation of two seminal works by Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism and Crises of the Republic, both published by Humanitas Press. Ion Dur is a well-known name among the literati who have emerged onto the Romanian intellectual scene after the fall of the communist regime.
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