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Samuel Clain and the Rumanian Enlightenment in Transylvania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Keith Hitchins
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In the second half of the eighteenth century the leavening effects of the Enlightenment began to be felt among the Rumanians of Transylvania. The Enlightenment in Transylvania—and in Eastern Europe generally —was a curious blend of natural law, rationalism, and optimism, drawn from the West, and nationalism, a response to local conditions. It is no coincidence that the first tangible signs of national awakening among the Rumanians manifested themselves at this time. In the thought of the Enlightenment they discovered new justification for their claims to equality with their Magyar, Saxon, and Szekler neighbors. For example, they applied the notion of “natural” civil equality between individuals to the relationship between whole peoples, and they accepted wholeheartedly the myth of the social contract as the foundation of society and as the guarantee of the rights of all those who composed it.

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Slavic Review , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , December 1964 , pp. 660 - 675
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1963

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