Papers by Gabriela Ratulea
Land
Cultural heritage plays a key role in communities’ sustainable development. The culture-led devel... more Cultural heritage plays a key role in communities’ sustainable development. The culture-led development highlights the local cultural resources and specifics while being assisted by contemporary tourist interest in niche offers. At the same time, culture-led development could reinforce a process of urban regeneration. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the urban regeneration potential of culture-led development in the case of a small town from Transylvania (Romania), Rupea, by identifying local characteristics that define this town and its surroundings as a cultural landscape and also by suggesting methods for capitalizing on this cultural landscape in heritage tourism. Data collected from six interviews with cultural stakeholders, bibliographic research on archaeological discoveries, and local tourism potential, as well as through ethnographic methods, support the approach of the Rupea area as a cultural landscape. The main dimensions of this cultural landscape are the inter...
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
Contents: Natural law and natural right - Natural condition of mankind - State of nature and sove... more Contents: Natural law and natural right - Natural condition of mankind - State of nature and sovereignty - Thomas Hobbes's doctrine of social contract - Hobbes's theory of moral and political obligation - Natural laws as moral precepts - Liberal interpretation of Hobbes - Modern individualism.
Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov, 2020
These article aims to provide the evolution of the vanguardist point of view on aesthetics. Vangu... more These article aims to provide the evolution of the vanguardist point of view on aesthetics. Vanguardism called into question modern and classical artistic methods and especially, aesthetical assumptions of modernity. If historical vanguardism exaggerated a series of the features of modernity, neo-vanguardism refuses the cult of novelty and rejects the permanent nihilism.
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Jul 1, 2021
Land
Făgăraș Land (Romania) is a very old administrative formation with its own identity, preserved fr... more Făgăraș Land (Romania) is a very old administrative formation with its own identity, preserved from the beginning of the Middle Ages. The mapping of the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) highlighted the groups of caroling lads as the main strategic heritage resource, but also the existence of many other ICH resources that can be exploited towards the sustainable development of the area. These include local soups, an ICH gastronomic resource that can help build the area’s tourism brand. All resources, together with the peculiarities of the local medieval history, the memory of the anti-communist resistance in the Făgăraș Mountains and the religious pilgrimage to the local Orthodox monasteries, support the configuration of Făgăraș Land as a multidimensional associative cultural landscape. The content analysis of the information on ICH available on the official websites of the administrative territorial units (ATUs), correlated with the data from the interviews with local leaders, hig...
Land, 2022
The compossessorates are traditional Transylvanian commons. They were disbanded during the Commun... more The compossessorates are traditional Transylvanian commons. They were disbanded during the Communist regime and re-established after 1989 according to the successive laws concerning land restitution. The current article highlights the importance of compossessorates in the Olt Land (in the south of Transylvania, Romania) as partners involved in projects focused on the sustainable development of the area. To this end, the paper presents the main features of contemporary Romanian commons, underlines the sustainable traditional orientation of compossessorates, and signals the latter’s difficulty in establishing relations with environmental protection-oriented NGOs, in this case Foundation Conservation Carpathia which focuses on establishing a national park in the area. Consequently, the methods employed to achieve all of the above was the thematic analysis of publications found in the Anelis+ databases which were considered relevant for the theme of Romanian commons, and the content ana...
From the Natural Man to the Political Machine
Justice and Toleration: The Problem of Hobbism in Early Locke This article treats about the influ... more Justice and Toleration: The Problem of Hobbism in Early Locke This article treats about the influence of Hobbes on the early writings of John Locke, Two Tracts on Government (1660 and 1662). These Tracts don’t have a particular importance in understanding Locke’s work, but they are important for understanding the spirit of the time and the intellectual development of the author of the Second Treatise (1690). In the Two Tracts, Locke defends a conservative position in the matter of government’s role in regulating the religious policy. Locke was a puritan, but he was part of that direction of Puritanism which remained attached to the Church of England and, therefore, he was critique of the anarchical spirit of radical and sectarian Protestants. Therefore, he defended the thesis that religious feelings should be subordinated to the reasons of State, as defined by the political authority. For a better understanding of the issues of the Two Tracts, we first analyze the political context ...
From the Natural Man to the Political Machine
SERIES VII - SOCIAL SCIENCES AND LAW, 2019
These article aims to provide the postmodernist point of view on aesthetics. Nowadays a work of a... more These article aims to provide the postmodernist point of view on aesthetics. Nowadays a work of art can no longer be defined within an aesthetical discipline. Aesthetics itself as a discipline is contested, starting from the assumption that it is a form of metaphysical thinking that sees, in the appearance of things, the manifestation of a normative spirit. The postmodern condition of art would relate first to the emancipation from the main narrative discourse of modern legitimising: aesthetics.
EUROPEAN RESEARCH STUDIES JOURNAL, 2010
In Antiquity the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, sustained that the purpose of the State is to be, ... more In Antiquity the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, sustained that the purpose of the State is to be, within the possibilities, a society of equal human beings. Our days the democracy answers the need of different components of the society to express themselves in the means of respect towards equality. Democratic practices cannot be conceived outside the nation. The problem is if there exists the possibility for it to function on the supranational level. The reflections with respect to the multiculturalism and the new conceptions which is elaborated starting from the European construction, make actual the connection between nation and democracy.
The paper starts from Wissenburg's assertion according to which we should consider nature and the... more The paper starts from Wissenburg's assertion according to which we should consider nature and the future generations as moral subjects in order to apply the concept of fair distribution to the environment. After a short introduction on the matter of fair distribution within the theories on social justice, the concept of ecological justice is analysed, as well as the way in which distributive justice may be extended to environmental issues.
Usually, the interpreters of Hobbes and Locke have discussed the two systems of political philoso... more Usually, the interpreters of Hobbes and Locke have discussed the two systems of political philosophy from the perspective of liberal political doctrine, meaning the opposition between unliberal absolute monarchy, which Hobbes promotes, and liberal parliamentary democracy, asserted by Locke. However, some interpreters have pointed out that, beyond the political matter, the two philosophies are first grounded in the culture of the 17th century and in the structure of English society. From this point of view, even Hobbes would keep in his concept of state of nature certain schemes of social behavior, which will allow him to reinvent society. Therefore, Hobbes’s man is the representative of a special type of society that Macpherson calls „possessive market society”. I analyze the implications of this hypothesis on the problem of moral and political obligation in Hobbes, with respect to those conventions which are called social mores. The status of mores is ambiguous in Hobbes, since the...
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