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Papers by Ion Cordoneanu
AYLLU-SIAF. Revista de la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Antropología Filosófica (SIAF), 2022
El interés de Mircea Eliade por las ideas de Heidegger se ilustra explícitamente en varios lugare... more El interés de Mircea Eliade por las ideas de Heidegger se ilustra
explícitamente en varios lugares de la obra del historiador de las religiones.
De hecho, la reconstrucción de la experiencia religiosa y la comprensión
de lo sagrado en el filósofo e historiador de las religiones puede ser
interpretada y resignificada en el espejo de la fenomenología del pensador
alemán, a pesar de que éste último no fue particularmente interesado en
la experiencia religiosa. Se considerará cómo Eliade define y opera con los
conceptos de sagrado, mito y ritual, así también cómo se estructura una verdadera
ontología de la experiencia religiosa.
International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education, 2021
Starting from the cycle of letters known as The Copernican Letters (1613-1615) and following thro... more Starting from the cycle of letters known as The Copernican Letters (1613-1615) and following through to the 1632 Dialogue, I will attempt to outline the context in which Galileo Galilei’s work is constituted as a veritable theory of nature research based on mathematics. Galilei rests on the principles of science to ground his choice for the Copernican model, as well as the separation of natural research from theology, but his concern for a unified philosophy of the natural world is intertwined in his work with the dignity of creation understood as “the great book of the world” by which divinity talks to man in the language of mathematics.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012
EDITORIAL BOARD
Abstract: The aim of this study is to analyse the fundamentals of Eliade's view of the Histo... more Abstract: The aim of this study is to analyse the fundamentals of Eliade's view of the History of Religions, with a focus on the origins of this view, in the context of the criticism against the field of study corresponding to religious studies as they have developed over the last two ...
Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
The two works this paper focuses on (Anastasios Yannopoulos, Orthodoxy and the Problems of Contem... more The two works this paper focuses on (Anastasios Yannopoulos, Orthodoxy and the Problems of Contemporary World and Georgios Mantzaridis, Globalization and Universality. Phantom and Truth) represent a thorough analysis of contemporary history, in which globalization is the ...
Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
Evenimentul, cu oarecare impact la nivelul opiniei publice internaþionale, prezent în conºtiinþa ... more Evenimentul, cu oarecare impact la nivelul opiniei publice internaþionale, prezent în conºtiinþa mea acum, când alcãtuiesc acest text, se referã la Rocco Butiglione, candidatul desemnat la postul de comisar european pentru Comisia de Securitate, Justiþie ºi Libertãþi, ºi are în vedere exprimarea publicã a convingerilor sale religioase 1 , afirmând cã "homosexualitatea este un pãcat", iar sensul unei cãsãtorii este "de a permite femeilor sã aibã copii ºi sã fie protejate de bãrbaþi". Cei care au votat Ion Cordoneanu O reinterpretare a pluralismului din perspectivã creºtinã
Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 2010
This study attempts to reveal how ideology can be a determinative exponent for a negative interpr... more This study attempts to reveal how ideology can be a determinative exponent for a negative interpretation of religion. Ideology and its processes are such powerful inducements that even a spirit like Eliade's (or Heidegger's, Sartre's, Cioran's, and Noica's, in the 20th century) couldn't resist them. This text also reveals, in its connotation, that an impersonal interpretation is preferred for one who is defined by political or, generally speaking, ideological motives. Metafizicã ºi politicã Demostraþia lui Dubuisson are urmãtorul parcurs: Ontologia lui Eliade se întemeiazã pe opoziþia sacru/ profan, omologabilã opoziþiei dintre fiinþã ºi ne-fiinþãcelebrul binom platonician pe care Eliade îl valorizeazã în limbaj religios astfel: fiinþa este datã de eterna reîntoarcere, regenerarea, prin rituri, a cosmosului; în vreme ce ne-fiinþei îi corespunde, în planul valorizãrii religioase, dar în sens negativ, timpul, istoria. Fobia faþã de schimbare sau, în limbajul lui Eliade, "teroarea
Annals of Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines, 2016
Descartes is considered to be the founder of modern rationalism. This is a clear statement which,... more Descartes is considered to be the founder of modern rationalism. This is a clear statement which, however, does not show the manner in which rationalism as such appeared in the history of science, taking into account the turmoil of the Renaissance centuries, the significance of the Reform and the birth of modern science. As a founder of a new metaphysics, Descartes, through his work, remains par excellence the case in which the scholastic and Renaissance aftermaths as well as the Reform mutations are mixed in a new synthesis that will be called modernity. This study focuses on reinterpreting Cartesianism from this perspective in the vast context of modernity's metaphysical significance – it is a hypothesis that will need to be developed not only by means of hermeneutical instruments but, especially, by means of those instruments belonging to the history of culture and anthropology.
Harmony is one of the concepts that permeate the history of human creation in varied fields: phil... more Harmony is one of the concepts that permeate the history of human creation in varied fields: philosophy, arts, music, science, economics, politics, etc. It is a preoccupation of the Pythagorean, of Plato and Aristotle, and a governing principle theorised during the times of the Byzantine Empire. However, in Cicero’s political thinking, harmony is the foundation stone of the organisation and functioning of the republic as body politic, a political principle which reflects the principle of the entire universe. Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio), an allegory on the harmony of the universe, is the closing part of the treatise De re publica, by which Cicero, inspired by Plato and synthetizing stoic, epicurean and neoplatonic ideas, bestows his political testament upon world culture and advocates the cultivation of virtue.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
In this article, I read the meeting between Abraham and Yahweh as an exemplary story about the co... more In this article, I read the meeting between Abraham and Yahweh as an exemplary story about the contradictory nature of faith and freedom which the divinity gave to human beings, when God asked for the sacrifice of Isaac. This story is exemplary because it has a meaning that is grasped at the intersection between misterium tremendum and misterium fascinans. A short reflection on the issues of the interpreters (Philo of Alexandria, Saint Paul, Origen, Gregory of Nazianz and many others) will reflect the Judaism – Christianity dialogue in its richness and diversity, as a fundamental resource of modern thinking reverberated in the texts of Kierkegaard and Levinas.
"Cosmic Christianity" refers, according to Mircea Eliade, to a new religious development, which c... more "Cosmic Christianity" refers, according to Mircea Eliade, to a new religious development, which characterises SouthEastern Europe, where the Christological mystery is projected over the entire nature, with emphasis on the liturgical dimension of human existence in the world. In this paper I will demonstrate that Eliade's analysis of the ballad can be also exploited from a cognitive approach, in an attempt to emphasise the fact that transfiguring death into an event of cosmic proportions and structure, as well as the mystic sympathy between man and nature, highlighted in Miori a, reveal new significances of the "sacred". The manner in which Eliade exploits the text of the ballad from the view of ethno-psychology and sociology can be integrated into a cognitive perspective, according to which ethnic, psychological and mental mechanisms largely determine religious beliefs and practices specific to a geographic area, such as SouthEastern Europe. The cognitive approach projected on Miori a can be considered a type of critical discourse on one of the founding myths that represents a cultural and spiritual model in the Romanian space and history.
Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
Sex is the greatest magic force of nature. Its actions prefigure the mystery of the One. Plato an... more Sex is the greatest magic force of nature. Its actions prefigure the mystery of the One. Plato and Orwell are two cases in which ideology distorts the sense of sexuality. Two thinkers of the XXth century, Julius Evola and Michel Foucault, represent two different perspectives for a ...
Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
The religious consciousness functions symbolically. As the orientation towards the sacred belongs... more The religious consciousness functions symbolically. As the orientation towards the sacred belongs to consciousness, human existence is constituently symbolic. For Eliade, symbolism is an immediate given of consciousness, an essential object of intelligence that belongs to human beings ...
Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
This text is meant to bring to the fore the connection between politics and religion, as it was r... more This text is meant to bring to the fore the connection between politics and religion, as it was reflected in theory that Alexis de Tocqueville dealt to in his book entitled De la démocratie en Amérique". In the same time, it takes into consideration the well-known meeting between ...
Harmony is one of the concepts that permeate the history of human creation in varied fields: phil... more Harmony is one of the concepts that permeate the history of human creation in varied fields: philosophy, arts, music, science, economics, politics, etc. It is a preoccupation of the Pythagorean, of Plato and Aristotle, and a governing principle theorised during the times of the Byzantine Empire. However, in Cicero’s political thinking, harmony is the foundation stone of the organisation and functioning of the republic as body politic, a political principle which reflects the principle of the entire universe. Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio), an allegory on the harmony of the universe, is the closing part of the treatise De re publica, by which Cicero, inspired by Plato and synthetizing stoic, epicurean and neoplatonic ideas, bestows his political testament upon world culture and advocates the cultivation of virtue.
International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-No... more This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0xUnported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work isproperly cited.
AYLLU-SIAF. Revista de la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Antropología Filosófica (SIAF), 2022
El interés de Mircea Eliade por las ideas de Heidegger se ilustra explícitamente en varios lugare... more El interés de Mircea Eliade por las ideas de Heidegger se ilustra
explícitamente en varios lugares de la obra del historiador de las religiones.
De hecho, la reconstrucción de la experiencia religiosa y la comprensión
de lo sagrado en el filósofo e historiador de las religiones puede ser
interpretada y resignificada en el espejo de la fenomenología del pensador
alemán, a pesar de que éste último no fue particularmente interesado en
la experiencia religiosa. Se considerará cómo Eliade define y opera con los
conceptos de sagrado, mito y ritual, así también cómo se estructura una verdadera
ontología de la experiencia religiosa.
International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education, 2021
Starting from the cycle of letters known as The Copernican Letters (1613-1615) and following thro... more Starting from the cycle of letters known as The Copernican Letters (1613-1615) and following through to the 1632 Dialogue, I will attempt to outline the context in which Galileo Galilei’s work is constituted as a veritable theory of nature research based on mathematics. Galilei rests on the principles of science to ground his choice for the Copernican model, as well as the separation of natural research from theology, but his concern for a unified philosophy of the natural world is intertwined in his work with the dignity of creation understood as “the great book of the world” by which divinity talks to man in the language of mathematics.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012
EDITORIAL BOARD
Abstract: The aim of this study is to analyse the fundamentals of Eliade's view of the Histo... more Abstract: The aim of this study is to analyse the fundamentals of Eliade's view of the History of Religions, with a focus on the origins of this view, in the context of the criticism against the field of study corresponding to religious studies as they have developed over the last two ...
Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
The two works this paper focuses on (Anastasios Yannopoulos, Orthodoxy and the Problems of Contem... more The two works this paper focuses on (Anastasios Yannopoulos, Orthodoxy and the Problems of Contemporary World and Georgios Mantzaridis, Globalization and Universality. Phantom and Truth) represent a thorough analysis of contemporary history, in which globalization is the ...
Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
Evenimentul, cu oarecare impact la nivelul opiniei publice internaþionale, prezent în conºtiinþa ... more Evenimentul, cu oarecare impact la nivelul opiniei publice internaþionale, prezent în conºtiinþa mea acum, când alcãtuiesc acest text, se referã la Rocco Butiglione, candidatul desemnat la postul de comisar european pentru Comisia de Securitate, Justiþie ºi Libertãþi, ºi are în vedere exprimarea publicã a convingerilor sale religioase 1 , afirmând cã "homosexualitatea este un pãcat", iar sensul unei cãsãtorii este "de a permite femeilor sã aibã copii ºi sã fie protejate de bãrbaþi". Cei care au votat Ion Cordoneanu O reinterpretare a pluralismului din perspectivã creºtinã
Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 2010
This study attempts to reveal how ideology can be a determinative exponent for a negative interpr... more This study attempts to reveal how ideology can be a determinative exponent for a negative interpretation of religion. Ideology and its processes are such powerful inducements that even a spirit like Eliade's (or Heidegger's, Sartre's, Cioran's, and Noica's, in the 20th century) couldn't resist them. This text also reveals, in its connotation, that an impersonal interpretation is preferred for one who is defined by political or, generally speaking, ideological motives. Metafizicã ºi politicã Demostraþia lui Dubuisson are urmãtorul parcurs: Ontologia lui Eliade se întemeiazã pe opoziþia sacru/ profan, omologabilã opoziþiei dintre fiinþã ºi ne-fiinþãcelebrul binom platonician pe care Eliade îl valorizeazã în limbaj religios astfel: fiinþa este datã de eterna reîntoarcere, regenerarea, prin rituri, a cosmosului; în vreme ce ne-fiinþei îi corespunde, în planul valorizãrii religioase, dar în sens negativ, timpul, istoria. Fobia faþã de schimbare sau, în limbajul lui Eliade, "teroarea
Annals of Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines, 2016
Descartes is considered to be the founder of modern rationalism. This is a clear statement which,... more Descartes is considered to be the founder of modern rationalism. This is a clear statement which, however, does not show the manner in which rationalism as such appeared in the history of science, taking into account the turmoil of the Renaissance centuries, the significance of the Reform and the birth of modern science. As a founder of a new metaphysics, Descartes, through his work, remains par excellence the case in which the scholastic and Renaissance aftermaths as well as the Reform mutations are mixed in a new synthesis that will be called modernity. This study focuses on reinterpreting Cartesianism from this perspective in the vast context of modernity's metaphysical significance – it is a hypothesis that will need to be developed not only by means of hermeneutical instruments but, especially, by means of those instruments belonging to the history of culture and anthropology.
Harmony is one of the concepts that permeate the history of human creation in varied fields: phil... more Harmony is one of the concepts that permeate the history of human creation in varied fields: philosophy, arts, music, science, economics, politics, etc. It is a preoccupation of the Pythagorean, of Plato and Aristotle, and a governing principle theorised during the times of the Byzantine Empire. However, in Cicero’s political thinking, harmony is the foundation stone of the organisation and functioning of the republic as body politic, a political principle which reflects the principle of the entire universe. Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio), an allegory on the harmony of the universe, is the closing part of the treatise De re publica, by which Cicero, inspired by Plato and synthetizing stoic, epicurean and neoplatonic ideas, bestows his political testament upon world culture and advocates the cultivation of virtue.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
In this article, I read the meeting between Abraham and Yahweh as an exemplary story about the co... more In this article, I read the meeting between Abraham and Yahweh as an exemplary story about the contradictory nature of faith and freedom which the divinity gave to human beings, when God asked for the sacrifice of Isaac. This story is exemplary because it has a meaning that is grasped at the intersection between misterium tremendum and misterium fascinans. A short reflection on the issues of the interpreters (Philo of Alexandria, Saint Paul, Origen, Gregory of Nazianz and many others) will reflect the Judaism – Christianity dialogue in its richness and diversity, as a fundamental resource of modern thinking reverberated in the texts of Kierkegaard and Levinas.
"Cosmic Christianity" refers, according to Mircea Eliade, to a new religious development, which c... more "Cosmic Christianity" refers, according to Mircea Eliade, to a new religious development, which characterises SouthEastern Europe, where the Christological mystery is projected over the entire nature, with emphasis on the liturgical dimension of human existence in the world. In this paper I will demonstrate that Eliade's analysis of the ballad can be also exploited from a cognitive approach, in an attempt to emphasise the fact that transfiguring death into an event of cosmic proportions and structure, as well as the mystic sympathy between man and nature, highlighted in Miori a, reveal new significances of the "sacred". The manner in which Eliade exploits the text of the ballad from the view of ethno-psychology and sociology can be integrated into a cognitive perspective, according to which ethnic, psychological and mental mechanisms largely determine religious beliefs and practices specific to a geographic area, such as SouthEastern Europe. The cognitive approach projected on Miori a can be considered a type of critical discourse on one of the founding myths that represents a cultural and spiritual model in the Romanian space and history.
Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
Sex is the greatest magic force of nature. Its actions prefigure the mystery of the One. Plato an... more Sex is the greatest magic force of nature. Its actions prefigure the mystery of the One. Plato and Orwell are two cases in which ideology distorts the sense of sexuality. Two thinkers of the XXth century, Julius Evola and Michel Foucault, represent two different perspectives for a ...
Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
The religious consciousness functions symbolically. As the orientation towards the sacred belongs... more The religious consciousness functions symbolically. As the orientation towards the sacred belongs to consciousness, human existence is constituently symbolic. For Eliade, symbolism is an immediate given of consciousness, an essential object of intelligence that belongs to human beings ...
Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
This text is meant to bring to the fore the connection between politics and religion, as it was r... more This text is meant to bring to the fore the connection between politics and religion, as it was reflected in theory that Alexis de Tocqueville dealt to in his book entitled De la démocratie en Amérique". In the same time, it takes into consideration the well-known meeting between ...
Harmony is one of the concepts that permeate the history of human creation in varied fields: phil... more Harmony is one of the concepts that permeate the history of human creation in varied fields: philosophy, arts, music, science, economics, politics, etc. It is a preoccupation of the Pythagorean, of Plato and Aristotle, and a governing principle theorised during the times of the Byzantine Empire. However, in Cicero’s political thinking, harmony is the foundation stone of the organisation and functioning of the republic as body politic, a political principle which reflects the principle of the entire universe. Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio), an allegory on the harmony of the universe, is the closing part of the treatise De re publica, by which Cicero, inspired by Plato and synthetizing stoic, epicurean and neoplatonic ideas, bestows his political testament upon world culture and advocates the cultivation of virtue.
International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-No... more This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0xUnported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work isproperly cited.