Începuturile criticismului în România. O reconsiderare
Reconsidering the beginnings of the critical philosophy in Romania

Summary/Abstract: The beginnings of the critical philosophy in Romania have been traditionally connected with the activity of some Transylvanian scholars, most importantly with the teaching activity of Gheorghe Lazăr in the Saint Sabbas College of Bucharest (1818–1822). However, a fresh new look at the facts suggests that this received view is rather groundless. The first thinker positively influenced by Kant and who disseminated Kantian ideas in print was Eufrosin Poteca, who taught philosophy in the Saint Sabbas College after Lazăr’s departure and death (1825–1832). Poteca compiled the first general exposition of Kant’s philosophy in Romanian and defended a Kantian conception of morality, nevertheless subordinated to an eudaemonist ethics of virtues. The sources, previously undiscovered, of his knowledge of the Kantian doctrines were Tennemann’s handbook of the history of philosophy and Krug’s system of practical philosophy, which Poteca read in K. Koumas’ Greek translations.

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