ETICĂ ȘI ÎNCERCĂRI DE METAETICĂ LA TRAIAN BRĂILEANU
Traian Brăileanu’s Attempts on Ethics and Meta-ethics

Summary/Abstract: The author of thepaper presumes that, in the case of Traian Brăileanu, one can speak about attempts todetach and separate from the ethical existent in searching for a meta-ethics. He finds asketch of a proof within the approach onto the freedom of will, as a trigger element instarting and developing the moral action, finally everything depending on the ethicalqualification (as ethical or not) of actions and reactions. By means of these metaethicalterms Traian Brăileanu strives to display the notions of Good and Evil, as hededuces them from the conceiving of free will as an absolute principle of ethics. Theproblem of moral good and evil arises at the moment when we get experienceawareness, which opens the road for desired actions. If this be absent, one cannotseparate between moral good and evil, as they are objectively equivalent. TraianBrăileanu raises problems that are interresting, from a meta-ethical viewpoint, inconnection with the notions of Selfishness and Altruism, as each one’s reference isrepresented by a well defined and clear attitude belonging to the ethical realm,depending on Good and Evil. Briefly, he presents the specificity of altruism andselfishness by means of each one’s specific note: altruism by the absolute lack of selfinterest (self-preservation instinct), and selfishness by the extreme increase of selfinterest (self-preservation instinct).

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