Mircea Florian

Who was Mircea Florian?

Mircea Florian was a Romanian philosopher and translator. Active mainly during the interwar period, he was noted as one of the leading proponents of rationalism, opposing it to the Trăirist philosophy of Nae Ionescu. His work, comprising some 20 books, shows Florian as a disciple of centrist and rationalists such as Constantin Rădulescu-Motru and Titu Maiorescu.

Active in independent social democratic politics, the philosopher became a political prisoner under the communist regime. It was during his time in jail that Florian conceived his philosophical system, published after his death in the treatise Recesivitatea ca structură a lumii. In 1990, he was made a posthumous member of the Romanian Academy.