Der Dritte Sinn
The Third Meaning

Summary/Abstract: Ion Dur’s thought-provoking and ground-breaking essays in The Third Meaning underline, on the one hand, a rather polytrophic perspective on the Romanian cultural phenomenon, i.e., on the essential perspectivism that our native philosophy should be granted. The evincing of the most precious resources of the Romanian ethos grants Ion Dur the privilege of unraveling the originality of Romanian philosophical thinking. A first aspect being addressed is that of the swing between the archaic and the universal. Ion Dur’s contribution to the studying of Emil Cioran’s works and of Mircea Vulcặnescu’s personality gets even better evinced by contrasting it to Marta Petreu’s approach to these issues. Without denying the merits of Marta Petreu’s insightful and bold assessments, one cannot overlook her limits in comprehensively addressing the great cultures’ deeper and far-reaching genuineness. While grasping our attention on Mircea Vulcặnescu’s phenomenological reduction in Dimensiunea românească a existenței, Marta Petreu cannot escape the confines of some regional ontology, which is unable to reveal the permanently active role of this thinker in having his generation assert itself way beyondthe rumors of the Little Ewe Lamb’s myth. Conversely, Ion Dur is able to meet in his essays the most recent modernist demands in evaluating the merits of Romanian philosophy.

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