Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences (May 2013)
LA QUESTIONE RIGUARDANDO LA RICEZIONE DELLA FILOSOFIA DI SAN TOMMASO IN ROMANIA
Abstract
The fact that in Romania the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas was received in a delayed and limited manner is due to the religious and cultural particularities. The researchers refer to the entering of the Thomistic thought at the same time with the establishment of the Catholic education system and, later, of the Greek-Catholic one. But the impact of this Christian philosophy on the Romanian thought was insignificant until the first decades of the 20th century, when the Neo-Thomism has been authorized by the Greek-Catholic school of Blaj1. An important fact regarding the reception of the Thomistic philosophical thought in Romania to be taken into account is the attitude of several religious and political consignees who, by pursuing merely their own petty interests, rejected a productive relatedness with the philosophy and theology of the Latin Church in general and with St. Thomas in particular.
