Reason and Faith in Dimitrie Cantemir's Works
Reason and Faith in Dimitrie Cantemir's Works

Summary/Abstract: The idea of the symbiosis between reason and faith, theorized by Augustin, Toma d’Aquino and Leibniz, is also found in the work of Dimitrie Cantemir, but unlike them, the perspective of Cantemir is an Eastern-Orthodox one. We share the idea that the thinking paradigm of the “Philosopher Prince” is orthological, mainly developed in The Divan, where faith prevails over the foundation of the moral man only if reason is manifested. Thus, in the purified man, free of worldly pleasures, the two can coexist. God is the Supreme Good to which only the man with moral consciousness (the Scholar) can accede, after having discovered the measure of the two capacities.

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