„Lupta monomahiii împotriva uitării lucrurilor”: ontologie şi deontologie în Predosloviile lui Dimitrie Cantemir
“Monomachy against Oblivion”: Ontology and Deontology in Dimitrie Cantemir’s Prologues

Summary/Abstract: Medieval, Baroque or Modern humanity is to be found always in the same dramatic condition within the interval “entre la DÉCHIRURE par le Temps ailé et l’ÉCRITURE de l’histoire et son stylet” (Paul Ricoeur). The solution offered is writing—a weapon and a cure (pharmakon), a way to annihilate the fear of nothingness and a spiritual offer of defi ning the self in front of the others and in front of history, through introspection or by means of comparative analysis with the otherness considered in its various hypostases (of identity, religion, ethics, sapience, etc.). From this point of view, we focus our attention on the work of Dimitrie Cantemir, read from the perspective of the Prologues of his works, seen as a privileged space where the author crystallized and defi ned his profession of faith, adding the landmarks of true ontology doubled by exemplary deontology, to the writing of history seen as a the “monomachy [...] against the tyranny of oblivion”, beyond the idea of restoring things, the combating effort, and the discernment attempt

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