CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Vara, Alin Marius |
|---|---|
| Title | The Problem of Evil in Early Modern Romanian Literature. Antim Ivireanul, Miron Costin and Ion Neculce |
| Summary | The thesis reconstructs the thought of three key figures in early modern Romanian culture: Antim Ivireanul, Miron Costin and Ion Neculce. The first was metropolitan of Walachia at the beginning of the 18th C. and left a series of sermons- Didahii, the next two were chroniclers of the history of Moldova in an interval which spans roughly from 1650 to 1750. The main thread of analysis concerns their definition of evil, politics, disobedience and historical experience. The question is whether this elite shared the radical problem of questioning political evil and discerning between right and wrong in the affairs of temporal rule. This would mean to investigate their moral-political projects and trace any signs of introducing the idea of political responsibility, of questioning the authorities for their willingness to establish a civilized, free and prosperous rule, of regarding history as a moral category and something which involves people as responsible agents. The conclusion aims at establishing the intellectual roots of the attitude towards totalitarian experience of the 20th century. |
| Supervisor | Matthias Riedl; Gyorgy Szonyi |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/vara_alin.pdf |
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