Alternativele Europei
The Alternatives of Europe

Summary/Abstract: The specialised investigations in the last century and a half have led us to the comprehensive understanding of Europe as a culture that was set up and has developed being nurtured by three major sources: Jerusalem, Athens and Rome, plus other numerous sources. The triangle of the three cultural metropolitan cities in history, which have essentially given us the religion and the vision upon the human fate, science and philosophy, law and civil dignity, remain the most adequate metaphor to summarise the decisive sources of Europe. The destiny of Europe cannot be thematised without examining these sources. Europeans today live in captivity with the present, with a culture somehow amputated by the lived dimension of the future. For this reason, the future has to become again a priority objective in democratic societies, and philosophy has the opportunity to develop a concept of rationality that includes science in an integrative understanding, which clarifies its meaning, without preventing the success of scientific action. Such a reason may set Europe in motion again with everything that is specific to it.

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