CONJUNCTURI ŞI FAPTE ESENŢIALE. MIRCEA VULCĂNESCU, CRONICAR ŞI FILOSOF AL ISTORIEI
Conjunctures and essential facts. Mircea Vulcănescu, chronicler and
philosopher of history
Author(s): Constantin StoenescuSubject(s): History of Philosophy
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Mircea Vulcănescu; conjunctures; essential facts; international affairs; Realpolitik; humanism;
Summary/Abstract: In the year 1935 the Romanian philosopher Mircea Vulcănescu delivered a daily heading on foreign policy issues in a newspaper. My idea is that Vulcănescu wrote his paper based on some philosophical suppositions which gave a theoretical content to his comments. In this paper I have tried to extract these presuppositions regarding the international affairs. Vulcănescu claimed that the conjunctures and the apparently insignificant fact have an essential role in the evolution of international politics. His conception is close to the so called Realpolitik, but he has tried to assert in the same time that the humanistic values have to guide the international affairs in order to have and equilibrium between power and interests, on the one hand, and the public welfare and morality, on the other hand.
Journal: Revista de filosofie
- Issue Year: LXIII/2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 5-16
- Page Count: 12
- Language: Romanian, Moldavian