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Simion Bărnuțiu
Overview
Simion Bărnuțiu (Romanian pronunciation: [simiˈon bərˈnut͡sju]; 21 July 1808 – 28 May 1864) was a Romanian historian, academic, philosopher, jurist, and liberal politician. A leader of the 1848 revolutionary movement of Transylvanian Romanians, he represented its Eastern Rite Catholic wing. Bărnuțiu lived for a large part of his life in Moldavia, and was for long a professor of philosophy at Academia Mihăileană and at the University of Iași.
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Zeno of Elea, a subtle dialectician, was severely reprimanded by Plato as a sophist, who, merely from the base motive of exhibiting his skill in discussion, maintained and subverted the same proposition by arguments as powerful and convincing on the one side as on the other. He maintained, for example, that God (who was probably nothing more, in his view, than the world) is neither finite nor infinite, neither in…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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Quocirca et sensibus utitur et artis efficit, quasi sensus alteros, et usque eo philosophiam ipsam corroborat, ut virtutem efficiat, ex qua re una vita omnis apta sit. Ergo ii, qui negant quicquam posse comprehendi, haec ipsa eripiunt vel instrumenta vel ornamenta vitae vel potius etiam totam vitam evertunt funditus ipsumque animal orbant animo, ut difficile sit de temeritate eorum,…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Academica
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Haec autem reuelante deo Moysi famulo suo comperta sunt, cui etiam humani generis conditionem atque originem uoluit innotescere, sicut ab eo libri prolati testantur. Omnis enim diuina auctoritas his modis constare uidetur, ut aut historialis modus sit, qui nihil aliud nisi res gestas enuntiet, aut allegoricus, ut non illic possit historiae ordo consistere, aut certe ex utrisque compositus, ut et secundum historiam…
Boethius, The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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- Revolutions of 1848
- Hungary
- Hungarian language
- Immanuel Kant
- Latin
- National identity
- Iași
- Classical radicalism
- Romania
- Roman Empire
- Roman law
- Self-determination
- Theology
- Vienna
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- August Treboniu Laurian
- Timotei Cipariu
Place in the tradition
Part of Romanian philosophy.