THE ROMANIAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL MODEL FROM DIMITRIE CANTEMIR TO MIRCEA ELIADE
THE ROMANIAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL MODEL FROM DIMITRIE CANTEMIR TO MIRCEA ELIADE

Summary/Abstract: The idea we put forward in this text is that Romanian philosophy offers a true anthropological model, based on the research of the reference texts from the specialised literature, starting with Dimitrie Cantemir, continuing with Lucian Blaga, Constantin Noica, Emil Cioran and Mircea Eliade, thinkers and philosophers who showed a special concern for the research of our way of being, who have written admirable pages about the Romanian soul, about the Romanian culture. We will focus especially on the contributions of Dimitrie Cantemir and Mircea Eliade, both thinkers illustrating the universal dimension of the Romanian spirituality. Dimitrie Cantemir was a precursor of philosophical anthropology not only in the Romanian space, but also in the European one. The Romanian anthropological model thought up by Dimitrie Cantemir in Descriptio Moldaviae reached a level of philosophical elaboration and refinement in the thinking of Mircea Eliade, who imposed himself in the contemporary anthropological knowledge through a “new philosophical anthropology and a new humanism.”

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