THE PHILOSOFICAL FRAME OF TRAIAN BRĂILEANU’S SOCIOLOGICAL THINKING

Abstract

This study aims at presenting the way in which is the philosophy of Traian Brăileanu structured. His work is unitary and is based on a clear idea, namely a sociology build on philosophy. Traian Brăileanu explained the term of moral community, key-concept of his social theory, a concept introduced in his human community paradigm. This paradigm can be compared with others proposed by Max Weber, Karl Marx, Robert Merton, Pierre Bourdieu, Ralph Dahrendorf or Jean Baudrillard. For the Romanian sociologist the supreme value of the community is morality. In the second part of his life the professor of Cernăuţi University dedicated his studies to a Christian sociology always situated between the logic of the mind and the logic of the soul, as Vasile Dem Zamfirescu stated. Traian Brăileanu felt that the rational factor was not enough for a real initiation of the ideal being. He was convinced that spirit is ever needed as well