Adrian Simion, Concepția despre națiune la Simion Bărnuțiu
Simion Bărnuţiu’s conception about the nation
This article is intended to be an overview of how Bărnuţiu Simon, one of the most important representatives of the generation of 1848 in Transylvania, introduced the concept of “nation” over time. He was the personality who decisively influenced the nation’s perspective on forty-eighters Transylvanian intellectuals. Bărnuţiu was the one who reformed vision of the concept of “nation” and discussed the constitutional recognition of self-determination and nation, as part of the state. When talking about the nation or in speeches or in his writings, he referred many times to the Transylvanian Romanian nation. He tried to base an ideological foundation for a better political affirmation for the Romanian nation. He tried to realize an ideological foundation for a modern an free Romanian political nation, and he found his arguments in using various ideas regarding national freedom, some of those ideas being part of the natural rights theory.
Keywords: Simion Bărnuţiu, nation, Blaj, speech, concept, Romanians, Transylvania
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