Personalitatea logicianului: adevăr și frumusețe. In memoriam Teodor Dima
The personality of the logician: truth and beauty. In memoriam Teodor Dima

Summary/Abstract: Shortly after the passing of the most beloved professor Teodor Dima, member of the Romanian Academy, this paper tries to capture the distinctive features of the Romanian and universal culture personalities becoming, via his vision. Thus, we consider that the texts elaborated by Prof. Dima about the book of C. Noica, Letters on Hermes’s Logic, are of a fundamental and perennial importance. Our cherished professor, from Iasi, expresses, in this sense, the conviction that „Hermes’s logic” represents a logic ontology, and, even more general, a metaphysics of knowledge and its logic. We wouldn’t have, thus, to deal with „another logic” effectively, but with a different modelling or interpretation of the logic, under hermeneutic and dialectic sign. We might say that, in this case, we also have to deal with a new use of logic, throughout the re-thinking of its meaning and finality. Essentially, the idea inserted by Noica is the following: he contours a logic of the individual that makes the junction with the general, an „individual-general”, configuring meanings and purposes in the great culture of humankind. In other words, it is proposed to us the analysis and comprehension of certain examples of the synalethism, specific to the Romanian cultural-spiritual space. Knower and consequent cultivator of the sayings of Noica about the necessity to open logic towards culture, T. Dima operates remarkable openings towards major figures of Romanian philosophers, which briefly comprise as many culture, knowledge and creation horizons. In their light, the logic is achieved via ethical enterprises, signifying as much hypostasis of man’s detaching from the dull quotidian existence, and her/his entering the spiritual excellence, throughout beauty and truth.

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