Constantin Noica
- "Noica" redirects here. For the politician, see Nicolae Noica
Constantin Noica (/kon.stan'tin 'noj.ka/) (25 July [O.S. July 12]
Biography
He studied at the Dimitrie Cantemir Lyceum and Spiru Haret Lyceum, both in
He worked as librarian at the History of Philosophy Seminar and attended the courses of the Faculty of Mathematics for one
year (1933). He was a member of the Criterion Association (1932-1934). His friends there, including Mircea Eliade, Mihail Polihroniade, and
After attending specialization courses in
In October 1940 he left for Berlin as a reviewer at the Romanian-German Institute, staying there during WWII, until 1944.
In 1949 he was sentenced by communist authorities to forced residence in Câmpulung-Muscel,
remaining there until 1958. In 1958 he was sentenced 25 years' forced labor and confiscation of all property. He was a political
detainee in
From 1965 he lived in Bucharest, where he was principal researcher at the Romanian
Academy's Center of Logics. In his two-room apartment he held seminaries on Hegel's, Plato's and
His last 12 years, beginning in 1975, he spent in
In 1988 he was awarded the
Quotes
- "I dream of a school where they really teach nothing." / "Visez o şcoală în care să nu se predea, la drept vorbind, nimic."
- "I am a merchant of ideas." / "Eu sunt negustor de idei." (declaration during trial)
Books
1934 - Mathesis or simple pleasances ("Mathesis sau bucuriile simple")1936 - Open concepts in the history of philosophy in Descartes, Leibniz andKant ("Concepte deschise în istoria filozofiei la Descartes, Leibniz şi Kant")- 1937 - De caelo. Essay around knowledge and the individual ("De caelo. Încercare în jurul cunoaşterii şi individului")
- 1937 - Life and philosophy of René Descartes ("Viaţa şi filozofia lui René Descartes")
- 1940 - Sketch for the history of How is it that there is anything new ("Schiţă pentru istoria lui Cum e cu putinţă ceva nou")
1943 - Two introductions and a passage to idealism ("Două introduceri şi o trecere spre idealism")- 1944 - Philosophical journal ("Jurnal filosofic")
- 1944 - Pages on the Romanian soul ("Pagini despre sufletul românesc")
- 1962 - "Phenomenology of Spirit" by G.W.F. Hegel narrated by Constantin Noica ("Fenomenologia spiritului de G.W.F. Hegel istorisită de Constantin Noica")
1969 - Twenty-seven levels of the real ("Douăzeci şi şapte trepte ale realului")1969 - Platon: Lysis1970 - The Romanian philosophical utterance[1] ("Rostirea filozofică românească")- 1973 - Creation and beauty in Romanian utterance[1] ("Creaţie şi frumos în rostirea românească")
- 1975 - Eminescu or Thoughts on the complete man of Romanian culture ("Eminescu sau Gânduri despre omul deplin al culturii româneşti")
1976 - Breaking up withGoethe ("Despărţirea de Goethe")1978 - The Romanian sense of being ("Sentimentul românesc al fiinţei")1978 - Six maladies of the contemporary spirit. The Romanian spirit at the conjuncture of time ("Şase maladii ale spiritului contemporan. Spiritul românesc în cumpătul vremii")- 1980 - Narrations on man, after Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" ("Povestiri despre om")
1981 - Becoming in-to being[2], vol. 1: Essay on traditional philosophy, vol. 2: Treatise ofontology ("Devenirea întru fiinţă", vol. 1: "Încercare asupra filozofiei tradiţionale", vol. 2: "Tratat de ontologie")- 1984 - Three introductions to becoming in-to being[2] ("Trei introduceri la devenirea întru fiinţă")
- 1986 - Letters on Hermes' logic ("Scrisori despre logica lui Hermes")
- 1988 - De dignitate Europae (in
German ) 1990 - Pray for brother Alexander! ("Rugaţi-vă pentru fratele Alexandru")- 1991 - Journal of Ideas ("Jurnal de idei")
1992 - Sunday essays ("Eseuri de duminică")1992 - Simple introductions to the kindness of our time ("Simple introduceri la bunătatea timpului nostru")1992 - Introduction to the Eminescian miracle ("Introducere la miracolul eminescian")- 1997 - Cîmpulung manuscripts ("Manuscrisele de la Cîmpulung")
1998 - The spiritual equilibrium. Studies and essays (1929-1947) ("Echilibrul spiritual. Studii şi eseuri (1929-1947)")
External links
- (Romanian) Noica's page at the
Humanitas publishing house [1]
Notes
- ^ a b The title is built on a word game: "rost" = sense, meaning, but "a rosti" = to pronounce, translated here by to utter.
- ^ a b Noica uses the old Romanian word "întru" (< Lat. intro), now rarely
used and substituted in the current use of the language by "în" (= Eng. in). See here how Noica explains its use:
"If a nourishing plant, that we can not find elsewhere, would grow on the Romanian soil, we should have to answer for it. If words and meanings that can enrich man's soul appeared in our language, but they didn't appear in others speech or thought, we should also have to answer for them.
Such a word is întru; such a meaning appears to be that of beingness. Actually, our peculiar understanding of beingness is, maybe, the result of the peculiar meanings of întru, that came to seemingly express the beingness from within, suggesting that «to be» means «to be into /întru/ something», that is to be, but not fully, in something, to rest but also to aspire, to close oneself but also to open oneself. In this way the beingness was pulled out from stillness and shook. But if it wouldn't be shaking, would it still be truly? What kind of beingness is the one that has no place for neither a vibration, nor an advance?".
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