Concepția etică a lui Vasile Băncilă din perspectiva metafizicii sale asupra lumii și a omului
Vasile Băncilă’s ethical conception from his metaphysics’ perspective on world and man

Summary/Abstract: Among the components of his long-aspired encyclopaedical philosophical system – summarised in the midst of his life and creative efforts as an “ideatic framework or structure” for his entire work –, a system that Vasile Băncilă called “providentialism”, my area of interest concerns his ethics and the related issues. Taking advantage of the new, post 1989 intellectual and ideological climate, as well as of the efforts of some good-willed people (to name, first of all, his daughter Ileana Băncilă and his earnest and relentless publisher Dora Mezdrea) the present paper intends to examine Vasile Bancilă’s writings on ethics. As others also noticed, ethics plays an important role in his philosophical works because he sees it as an emergent aspect of philosophy whose aim is to extract ideal-forming elements from the latter’s “soul forces” synthesis, elements leading to that particular wisdom capable of maintaining an unaltered human purity of soul. For Băncilă, for instance, all knowledge acquired (especially during secondary education) is of no value unless it benefits from “moral understanding and mystical backgrounds” which give it meaning and lead it to “forming the definitive soul value of the ethnic instinct”, which constellates the moral character of every human.

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