Sacrificiul de sine – fundament al comunității oamenilor
Self-sacrifice: The ground of human community

Summary/Abstract: Most of the time, when we are talking about relationships between people, within a community, we do not think of someone who deeply establishes these relationships and puts himself as the foundation of that community. In such a case we rather have in mind someone's relationship with someone else, or, it is just a timeless relationship of someone with themselves. In other words, someone is in herself another to someone, just as another one is, in himself, someone. It is not a question here of a passage in time, as something arriving to be to something else. It is as Hegel stated once, that time has been suppressed. According to this thinker, the relationship of one person to another as something that is passing from someone to someone else takes place outside time; it is timeless. On this relationship that is inscribed in timelessness, the temporal relations between people are constituted and thus the concepts of loyalty, compassion and peace are established, concepts on which any community is based, because they result in the reunion of someone else with someone. Sacrifice as a voluntary renunciation of something precious in favour of someone else finds its justification in these concepts based on the timeless relationship.

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