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Journal articles and book chapters

Dostoevsky in Romanian Culture: at the Crossroads between East and West

Book chapter in "Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context"

Socrates and Alyosha Karamazov

Victimhood between separation and communion: an article where I explore the possibility of refusing the separation between victims and perpetrators even when evil actions take place.

Responses to Divine Communication: Oedipus and Socrates (Philosophy and Theology 2020)

Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus shows that humans' problems do not appear when they listen to the gods, but when they listen to themselves imagining that they follow the gods. Instead of placing themselves in the service of the god, as Socrates does in Plato’s Apology, they only think that they follow the divinity, while they actually act according to their own understanding. If Sophocles’s play is a synopsis of this danger, Plato’s dialogue proposes a different attitude before divinity: instead of interpreting the gods and acting on this interpretation, you would need to enter into their service by studying the meaning of their communication.

Cu Platon in drum spre Emaus (Saeculum, 2023)

Prior to its philosophical meaning of “contemplation,” theoria meant the journey that a theoros took to a different city to participate in a religious spectacle. One of the common features that philosophical theoria and traditional theoria share is the journey that the philosopher and the theoros respectively take toward the realm that is to be known. For a philosopher, the journey is intellectual and is analogous to the one Plato described in the allegory of the cave. For the traditional theoros, physical traveling is a necessary component. In both cases, though, there is no explanation for the reason why humans begin their journey toward the place where they encounter aspects of divinity, and so have genuine knowledge. Focusing primarily on the allegory of the cave, I claim that Plato’s philosophy provides the first steps for the answer to this question, question which will be finally answered in Christianity: human theoria results in knowledge only if a prior journey takes place: that of God who takes on human nature so that humans can know God.

Justice between Mercy and Revenge in Sophocles’ Antigone and Plato’s Crito (Lexicon Philosophicum 2019)

Plato’s Crito and Sophocles’ Antigone challenge the concept of justice as “benefitting friends and harming enemies”: justice stems from anger and harms the soul. The Antigone first illustrates how violence results from people’s actions when they see themselves as the agents of justice; second, it points to a possible reassessment of justice as benefitting all, regardless of what others do to you. In the Crito, Socrates shows how this new notion of justice, which is very similar to mercy, is consistent with the life of a good human being.

My research focuses on Greek philosophy and Dostoevsky.

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