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Issue/2015 STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI PHILOSOPHIA Special Issue/2015 December https://studiaphilosophia.wordpress.com/ http://studia.ubbcluj.ro/serii/philosophia/index_en.html Contact: [email protected] EDITORIAL BOARD STUDIA UBB PHILOSOPHIA CHIEF EDITOR: Ion COPOERU (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca) EDITORIAL BOARD: Jeffrey Andrew BARASH (Université Amiens) Monique CASTILLO (Université Paris XII Val-de-Marne) Chan Fai CHEUNG (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Virgil CIOMOŞ (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca) Aurel CODOBAN (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca) Peter EGYED (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca) Eliane ESCUBAS (Université Paris XII Val-de-Marne) Mircea FLONTA (University of Bucharest) Gyorgy GEREBY (CEU Budapest) Jad HATEM (USJ Beyrouth) Lester EMBREE (Florida Atlantic University) Marta PETREU-VARTIC (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca) Eveline PINTO (Université Paris I) Anca VASILIU (CNRS Paris) Károly VERESS (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca) Alexander BAUMGARTEN (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca) Dan-Eugen RAŢIU (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca) Lasse SCHERFFIG (Academy of Media Arts, Cologne) EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Tomas KACERAUSKAS (Technical University Vilnius) Dietmar KOCH (Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen) Alina NOVEANU (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca / Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen) Attila SZIGETI (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca) Tincuta HEINZEL (Academy of Media Arts, Cologne) Emilian CIOC (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca) YEAR Volume 60 (LX) 2015 MONTH DECEMBER ISSUE SP. ISSUE S T U D I A UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ–BOLYAI PHILOSOPHIA Special Issue STUDIA UBB EDITORIAL OFFICE: B.P. Hasdeu no. 51, 400371 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Phone + 40 264 405352 CONTENT – SOMMAIRE – INHALT – CUPRINS ALEXANDRA BANEU, The Ab auro Prologue of Pelbartus of Themeswar’s Theological Encyclopaedia .................................................................................. 5 ALINA CIRIC, The Constitution of Time in Husserl ................................................... 19 P. ALPÁR GERGELY, John L. Austin’s and John R. Searle’s Conception of Truth ...... 31 ANTON CRIŞAN, A Commentary upon Gadamer’s Interpretation of Hegel ............ 41 OLEG GHILAS, The Meaning of Russian Nihilism ..................................................... 55 SORIN ALIN SESERMAN, The National Peasants’ State in the vision of Constantin Rădulescu-Motru .............................................................................................. 63 ȘTEFAN VLAD, Sacredness and Violence in the Juridico-disciplinary Dispositifs ..... 75 MARIA CIURCHEA BARBU, Tolerance Between Vice and Virtue ............................. 89 CIPRIAN RĂZVAN LICĂ, The Legitimation Crisis of the Political and the Investiture of Technocracy Considered Through the Perspective of Giorgio Agamben’s Theory .......................................................................................... 101 RALUCA MARINELA SILAGHI, The Role of Alterity and Digital Media in the Outlining of Postmodern Individual’s Identity ................................................ 117 ANDRA MAVROPOL, Photography as Necessity in Everyday Aesthetic Life ......... 131 x x x VIRGIL CIOMOŞ, De analogia entis au chiasme ontico-ontologique ..................... 145 KÁROLY VERESS, Application and Philosophy within a Hermeneutical Horizon ... 159 Issue Coordinator: Károly Veress Publishing Date: December 2015 STUDIA UBB. PHILOSOPHIA, Vol. 60 (2015), Sp. Issue, pp. 5-18 (RECOMMENDED CITATION) THE AB AURO PROLOGUE OF PELBARTUS OF THEMESWAR’S THEOLOGICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA* ALEXANDRA BANEU** ABSTRACT. The Ab Auro Prologue of Pelbartus of Themeswar’s Theological Encyclopedia. Pelbartus of Themeswar is a 15th century observant Franciscan best known for his collections of model sermons. This article, however, treats one of the two prologues which accompany his work of systematic theology, the Aureum sacrae theologiae rosarium. The Ab auro prologue, which is discussed in detail in the present study, introduces the reader to the main intent of the work. It has a rich metaphoric style and is tacitly inspired by the “Primum principium” of William of Vaurouillon’s commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. Keywords: Pelbartus of Themeswar, William of Vaurouillon, the Ab auro prologue, the Sentences of Peter Lombard, exempla In the 15th century there was an increased demand, in comparison with the previous two centuries, for encyclopedias1 á texts which would incorporate almost all the information necessary for a science, ordered in such a manner that would make it easy to access. Such texts were compiled especially in the natural sciences,2 but theology made no exception. * This research was financed through the project “Minerva – Cooperation for an elite career in PhD and post-doctoral research”, the code of the contract: POSDRU/159/1.5/S/137832; the project is co-financed from the European Social Fond through the Operational Regional Program for the Development of Human Resources 2007-2013. ** PhD student at the Doctoral School in Philosophy, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Romanian Academy Cluj-Napoca Branch. E-mail: [email protected] 1 When establishing the difference between dictionaries, repertoires and encyclopedias, Olga Weijers mentions the fact that the dictionaries and repertoires only send to other books whereas encyclopedias resume the knowledge of a period and are actually meant to be read. See: Olga Weijers, Dictionnaires et repertoires au moyen age, Brepols, Turnhout, 1991, p. 12. 2 Stefan Swieżawski states that the need to have more and more compendiums and manuals that make study easier is a characteristic tendency of the époque. See: Stefan Swieżawski, L’Univers- la philosophie de la nature au XVesiècle en Europe, Editions de la Société des Sciences et des Lettres de Varsovie, Varsovie, 1999, p. 8‒9. ALEXANDRA BANEU As the need for such works which would be easy to consult grew, so did the popularity of the alphabetical order.3 This order was used so as to organize a certain matter within the indexes added by the print houses4 as well as by the authors themselves in tabulae situated either at the begging or at the end of a certain work. The alphabetical order as we know it was not really appropriated before the end of the Middle Ages, and, once it was, it already showed a different approach towards the text: it was no longer read linearly, but the important passages were to be found with a certain speed, read and re- read, but especially quoted in sermons.5 1. The Aureum sacrae theologiae rosarium: Pelbartus of Themeswar and his theological encyclopedia Pelbartus of Themeswar, a 15th century observant Franciscan, is the author of an alphabetically ordered theological encyclopedia. He was born in Timişoara (Themeswar), probably around 1435. The matriculation register at the University of Krakow mentions his enrollment in the Faculty of Arts in 14586 and the Liber promotionum has a mention of him as a graduate of that faculty, having become a baccalaureus artium in 1463.7 The next source mentioning Pelbartus is the chronicle of the observant Franciscans of Buda, attributed to Blasius of Zalka, in which we find him as an established preacher, teaching at the studium of the Saint-John observant Franciscan convent in Buda in 1483.8 The same chronicle mentions his death on the 3 For a detailed presentation of the evolution of the alphabetical order, see: Olga Weijers, Dictionnaires et repertoires au moyen age, Brepols, Turnhout, 1991. Another good presentation of the evolution of the alphabetical order in the context of the evolution of glossaries and dictionaries would be Donatella Nebbiai - Dalla Guarda, “Les glossaires et les dictionnaires dans les bibliothéques médiévales”, in Jacqueline Hamesse (ed), Les manuscrits des lexiques et glossaires de l’antiquité à la fin du moyen age ‒ actes du Colloque international organisé par le “Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture” (Erice 23- 30 septembre 1994), Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1996, p. 145‒204. 4 For how the first books were printed, see: Mark Bland, A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts, Blackwell, Oxford, 2010. Also, a very good presentation of how the first print shops worked can be found in: Andrew Pettegree, The Book in the Renaissance, Yale University Press, London and New Haven, 2010. 5 Olga Weijers, op. cit., p. 15. 6 Antoni Gasiorowski (ed.), Metryka Uniwersytetu Krakowskiego z lat 1400-1508, Towarzystwo naukowe Societas Vistulana, Crakow, 2004, p. 272. His name was initially erroneously transcribed, by the editor of the Album studiosorum, as Gewardus. See: A. M. Kosterkiewicz (ed.), Album studiosorum Universitatis Cracoviensis, Tomus I, Typis et impensis Universitatis Jagellonicae, Cracoviae, 1887, p. 153. 7 Antoni Gasiorowski (ed.), Liber promotionum Facultatis Artium in Universitate Cracovensi saeculi decimi quinti, Nakladem Polskiej Akademii Umieje, Krakow, 2000, p. 53. 8 Ferenc Toldy (ed.), “Blasii de Zalka et continuatorum eius cronica fratrum minorum de observantia proviniciae Boznae et Hungariae” in Annalecta monumentorum Hungariae historicorum literariorum maximum inedita, Biblioteca Academia Scientiarum, Pesta, 1867, pp. 213‒215. 6 THE AB AURO PROLOGUE OF PELBARTUS OF THEMESWAR’S THEOLOGICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA 22nd of January 1504 and the fact that he is celebrated within the order on the 27th of May.9 Although Pelbartus is best known for his collections