Oglinda Dianei – de la Lâna de Aur la Creanga de Aur
Diana’s Mirror – from the Golden Fleece to the Golden Bough

Summary/Abstract: I begin this text with an apparently well known commonplace: Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas. It seems a commonplace, who does not know it? The problem is that commonplaces do not turn anyone into a scholar, because they do not refer to any specific statements, but they have always an empirical basis, thus being an universalization of particular cases from science and life. And Aristoteles teaches us that problems are either universal or particular. Both kinds of problems have in common the ways by which we absolutely confirm or reject a sentence. Indeed, if we prove that a certain determination belongs to every case, we also prove that it belongs to some; and if we prove that it does belong to no cases, then it does not belong to any case as well. The article talks about a metaphysics of light/truth, using the pretexts of the Golden Fleece and the Golden Bough. Everything ends in and on the mirror of Diana.

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