New Perspectives in European Cultural Area Based on Lucian Blaga’s Philosophical System

Lucian Blaga is the first Romanian philosopher who built a philosophic system. From the theory of knowledge to the theory of culture and surrounded with very complex studies of nature, art or historic ways of debating life process, this huge work presented at high level, maybe the most elaborate process of writing philosophy of culture by an Romanian author. Centered on the philosophy of history and culture, Blaga’s system provides a lot of opportunities in studying his cultural themes. Unfortunately, Lucian Blaga’s writings are not intensively studied in Romania and abroad, since he isn’t so famous like Mircea Eliade or Emil Cioran, but his work gave us a lot of information for the cultural and historical research. It was a time when communist system tried to put Blaga down for his attitude and his cultural ideas, and they almost succeeded. This paper presents Lucian Blaga’s contribution in development of cultural and historical philosophy first in Romania and then in every place where cultural area is studied. In this research the metaphysical theories and all the implications of those theories in the philosophy of culture are debated. We also need to present Lucian Blaga in front of the Romanian philosophers, as he deserves to be appreciated at a high level. Studying Lucian Blaga is not an easy research task because it is necessary to read and try to understand all his books no matter if those books consist in volumes of poetry, dramaturgy, novels, biography and the entire philosophical system (Trilogy of Knowledge, Trilogy of Culture, Trilogy of Values and The Cosmological Trilogy). A vision of culture according to the theory of knowledge can be assumed, and also a vision of culture due to the theory of values and then a perspective of historical and cultural goals according to the cosmological and anthropological points of views can emerge. All those mixed could create a great cultural field for those who want to understand better how the cultural process in our word takes place according to Lucian Blaga.