Scrierile lui Ion Petrovici comentate în istoriile consacrate filosofiei românești
The Writings of Ion Petrovici Commented in the Histories Dedicated to Romanian Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: An ardent supporter of traditionalist metaphysics and the reconciliation of philosophy with science and religion, in order to substantiate real philosophical knowledge, Ion Petrovici pleaded in his writings for the use of both the empirical-rationalist and the intuitionist method. Extremely favourable, N. Bagdasar's commentary on “The History of Romanian Philosophy” (1940) objectively describes, the philosopher’s courageous attempts, carried out at the height of logical positivism, to legitimize metaphysics. But this attitude is not to be found anymore after the war, in the conditions of the new political rules imposed in the country during the “era” of communist totalitarianism, when his philosophical writings are marginalized or, when commented, they are framed in the “decadent” currents of spiritualist orientation. It was only after 1990, that some authors of syntheses, compendia, monographs and histories of Romanian philosophy (Gheorghe Vlăduțescu, Alexandru Surdu, Al. Boboc, Vasile Muscă, Viorel Vizureanu etc.), restore the proper interpretation of Ion Petrovici’s work, giving it due importance and placing the philosopher among Maiorescu’s disciples, with valuable philosophical contributions especially in logic (obtaining and the nature of notions, their sphere and content etc.), in metaphysics and in the theory of knowledge.

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