Dumitru D. Roṣca (January 29, 1895 – August 25, 1980) was a
Romania
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n
philosopher, professor and
member of the Romanian Academy.
Biography
Dumitru Roşca attended philosophy classes in Paris at
Sorbonne
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. He is best known for his doctoral thesis defended at Sorbonne in 1928: "The Influence of
Taine on
Hegel". The book was dedicated to
Emile Bréhier.
Dumitru Roşca translated Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's works into Romanian. He also translated Hegel's "
Life of Jesus" into French.
He published in French "''Existénce tragique'': An Attempt of Philosophical Synthesis". He contributed through his writings to the theory of existentialism.
His works were influenced by Hegel and
Søren Kierkegaard.
Works
*''Istoria filosofiei'' (1964)
*''Prelegeri de estetică'' (1966)
*''Ştiinţa logicii'' (1966)
*''Studii filosofice'' (1967)
*''Însemnări despre
Hegel'' (1967)
*''Influenţa lui Hegel asupra lui
Taine'' (1968)
*''Existenţa tragică'' (1968)
*''Prelegeri de filosofie a istoriei'' (1969)
*''Studii şi eseuri filosofice'' (1970)
*''Oameni şi climate'' (1971)
External links
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1895 births
1980 deaths
People from Săliște
Romanian Austro-Hungarians
20th-century Romanian philosophers
Academic staff of Babeș-Bolyai University
Historians of philosophy
Philosophers of art
Romanian philosophers
University of Paris alumni
Titular members of the Romanian Academy
Romanian writers in French
20th-century Romanian writers
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