IDEI POLITICE ÎN ŢĂRILE ROMÂNE ÎNTRE 1821-1848 ASUPRA CONTEXTULUI POLITIC, CIVILIZAȚIONAL, IDEOLOGIC

Abstract

This article is a fragment of the first chapter “Political Ideas in the Romanian Principalities between 1821-1848” of the Research Project Encyclopedia of Romanian Political Thought, vol. I: 1821-1918. It presents some of the most important factors that marked the emergence of modern political ideas of western inspiration in the Romanian Principalities after the abolition of the Phanariot regime and the restoration of the earthly rulers: domestic and regional political evolutions, ingress of Western ideologies of “Le siècle des lumières”, “accelerating the Westernization process” of the Moldavian-Wallachian society and the disciplinary evolution of the “scholars” research interests.

Keywords

• Le siècle des lumières
• post-phariot era
• Westernization process
• scholars
• progressive and liberal thought