NICOLAE STEINHARDT AND LEON DUGUIT FACE TO FACE AFTER (ALMOST) A CENTURY

Abstract

This alignment of two names might seem at least strange or exaggerated: Leon Duguit and Nicolae Steinhardt. At the time of defending the thesis in 1936 by Nicolae Steinhardt, a young man of 24, Leon Duguit was no longer alive, but he had left an impressive scientific work. That is, it would be said that there is no place for comparison, the equality of arms being utopian. And yet the comparison is opportune, because it is about ideas to which history may or may not have given its answer.