Petre Țuțea — Knowledge and Dogma
Petre Țuțea — Knowledge and Dogma

Summary/Abstract: “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” – otherwise put, “everyone knows”better. Can anything good come from a former Marxist who before WW2 repudiatedthe left and then entered a right-wing government as an economist technocrat, whosemerits were admittedly awarded by two consecutive Romanian monarchs, but who wasaccused of fascist sympathies both by old and by recent Communist attorneys of thecancel-culture purge? Heidegger’s “man” offers a brilliant criticism of the “everyoneknows” reasoning-type, which usually spreads “dogmas”. Yet some would ask if anythinggood can come out of someone who signed the Führereid. Well, in fact, Țuțeanever signed anything of that sort. The present paper promises to deliver a descriptionof the good that comes from Țuțea. In a way fit to defend the contemporary OrthodoxTheology’s holding on to dogma, Țuțea offers the simple yet exhaustive description ofwhat dogma really means. This “Socrates of the Romanians”, who unlike the paragondid not die in prison, shares this description in his over and over again confiscated andtherefore uncompleted anthropological treatise: Omul. Tratat de antropologie creștinã(English – Treatise of Christian Anthropology).

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