Compromises - Negotiations...

Approaching the subject, I noticed a shift from a moralizing connotation and somewhat of my own a few years ago (MOLDOVAN, Mircea and GRAMA, Niculae, ELEMENTE DE ETICĂ PROFESIONALĂ ÎN ARHITECTURĂ ȘI URBANISM, Editura Universitară "Ion Mincu", București, 2006, 156 pp., ISBN 973-7999-51-7) and I tried to introspect to explain it.

Decades ago, I considered it an attribute of the wooden language to recall the definition of the terms of a domain at the beginning of its treatment, and I was somewhat surprised when, later, I found this procedure in Heidegger's ORIGINEA OPEREI DE ARTĂ (the originator, together with Blaga, of our master Titus Mocanu). Today's electronic media allows quasi-instant access to dictionaries, so we will not consume typographic space in this way, but we will directly advance some conclusions: Romanian definitions slide extremely naturally from compromise to compromise, with the pejorative note of de rigueur...

In approaching the subject, I detected a shift in comparison with the moralizing connotation somehow specific to a few years ago (Mircea Moldovan and Niculae Grama, Elements of Professional Ethics in Architecture and Urbanism, Ion Mincu University Press, Bucharest, 2006, 156 pp.) and I have attempted some introspection in order to explain it to myself.

Decades ago, I considered recollection of the definition of terms in a field at the beginning of a discussion of that field to be an attribute of wooden language, and so I was somewhat surprised when I later found the same procedure in The Origins of the Work of Art by Heidegger (along with Blaga, the guiding spirit of our teacher Titus Mocanu). The present-day electronic media allow almost instantaneous access to dictionaries, and so we shall not use up printed pages in this way, but rather we shall straightaway put forward some conclusions: in Romanian the definitions slide extremely naturally from compromise to compromising, with the obligatory pejorative note...