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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA GRAECO-CATHOLICA VARADIENSIS - Issue no. 2 / 2001  
         
  Article:   THE ASPECTS OF CULTURAL PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE CONCEPTION OF CONSTANTIN MICU.

Authors:  IONUŢ ISAC. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:   C. Micu has written some interesting philosophical works focused on the issues of culture-civilisation relationship. Being influenced by the German contemporary philosophy, Micu argued, however, against the idea that there could be an opposition or a "split" between culture and civilisation (as Gobineau, Spengler and A. Weber were thinking). Every civilisation begins and develops itself in a certain cultural milieu. The key of this simbiotic mixture is the society, seen as the outcome of an originary human consciousness of solitude/loneliness in a foreign and (natural) hostile world. Society is also the brige between culture and civilisation, the result of the highest values of the mankind. As a matter of civilisation, the state must respect and preserve these values, otherwise society could find itself in danger of collapsing because of political dictature. Such a manner of thinking recommends us Micu as a scholar of Kant’s moral philosophy. Furthermore, he has shown an astonishing anticipation (in 1944 - 1945) of the next decades of communist totalitarianism.  
         
     
         
         
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