Logica românească postbelică în prezentarea lui Anton Dumitriu

Abstract

Anton Dumitriu is a representative Romanian philosopher and logician, wellknown across the world as the author of the History of Logic and the English translation of the Treaty published by Abacus Press, Kent, in 1977. Our study investigates how the author summarizes Romanian contributions, to the development of logic in the postwar period, spoiled by massive Communist ideological interference into Romanian culture. In the last part of the treaty, dedicated to the Romanian postwar logic, the author includes both philosophers and logicians repressed during the decade of the Stalinist Cultural Revolution (DD Rosca, Dan Bădărău, Aram Frenkian and Constantin Noica) and persecutors of logicians and philosophers, as the Pavel Apostol, C.I. Gulian and Athanase Joja. In presenting these authors, considered the representatives of the current ideas of dialectical logic, Anton Dumitriu made only a presentation exercise, and not criticism, proper for reasons of self-defense. We highlighted this issue to prove the thesis that during the cultural revolution in Romania even logic, the science of the eternal forms of human thinking, was achieved by unlawful interference of the communist ideology. This totalitarian ideology, having suppressed an entire generation of Romanian thinkers of the interwar period, including arrests and deportations, aims to prevent recovery of the free mind in thinking. Towards the end of the study we wonder why the Romanian logician has not intervened in the earlier editions of the History of Logic, since 1990, when he had worked for the preparation of the third edition, published posthumously between 1993 and 1998.