Meloethics. A Semiotic Essay on the Moral Values of the Artistic-Musical Creation, Junimea Publishing House, Jassy, 1996

In the framework of an integratory hermeneutical perspective, and using the semiotics of music, this book launches a new concept, that of „meloethics”. As a complex unity of profoundness, in its dynamics, respectively the unity of music art and of moral values on which the first is grounded, no less it develops itself and activates them through the peculiar modalities of melody, harmony and rhythm, the „meloethics” enriches the categorial apparatus of philosophy, having a large potential to be applied in ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of art, philosophy of musical language. Unfolding a vast theoretical analysis, the author motivates her original thesis on the basis of what she considers to be an „onto-ethics of music art”. The approach continuously finds support in the universal musical creation, since ancient fragments of monodies till the sublime chamber and symphonic music of classicism and of contemporary music. As supreme expression of „meloethics”, the author selects the creation of George Enescu – a privileged example within the philosophical-moral universe of the human value.

Elements of Ethics and of Deontology, „Al.I.Cuza” University Publishing House, Jassy, 1997; second edition, 1998

The volume is a sort of handbook, respectively a professional ethics organon in teaching and learning, that is welcome in the domain of social and humanities training. It offers a necessary cognitive and educational material, that can challenge and maintain an awake consciousness in accomplishing the duties to ourselves and the duties to others, according to the deep meaning of Immanuel Kant’s formulation of the „categorical imperative”. The contents implies: basic conceptual explanations; the intertwining of axiological and normative dimensions of ethics and deontology; the presentation of relevant contributions throughout the history of ethical-deontological reflection; the exposure of defining characteristics of moral codes – finally, some important issues in the professional education of individual in nowadays.

Studies of Philosophy Educating Humanity, Junimea Publishing House, Jassy, 1997

Replying to the captivities of a time that is marked by excessive interest of material consumption, of speed, of superficialty and artificialty; also, a time of a stressed spiritual alienation, the colected papers of the present volume are the fruit of a long meditation upon the situation-in-the-world of contemporary human being. They are, no less, a call for responsible commitment of each of us in finding ways to transcend the moral crisis, in identifying the chances of following that the author names the „anabasical trajectory”, and in affirmation of the creative potential of human being, eventually. „Educating humanity” is claimed like a priority of present days. It is conceived to be realized in terms of an interdisciplinary philosophical-educational and ethical-aesthetical perspective, by outlining a „philosophy of the example to be followed”, too.

Ethos of Music Art. Essays in Moral Philosophy, Junimea Publishing House, Jassy, 2000; second edition, reviewedand augmented, 3D ARTE Publishing House, Jassy, 2007

Coming from the intimate knowledge-experience of music art and putting in act a serious meditation upon the profound relation between moral philosophy and music art, this booklet is a motive of stimulating the „spirit’s joy” living, by understanding the significance of „ethos of music art” for humanity. The reader is introduced in a transdisciplinary universe of emerging ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of language, hermeneutics, phenomenology, semiotics, in direction to catch the extraordinary power that art of harmonious sounds can exert on the self-fulfillment of the subject who is open to receive the hedonist, utilitarian, and eudaemonist message, one of „moral health” which the veritable music offers.

Introduction to Aretelogy. A Short Treatise of Ethics, „Al.I.Cuza” University Publishing House, Jassy, 2001; second edition, 2004

The author unfolds an approach of ethics by the holistic and dynamic meaning of „aretelogy”. We face a personal vision developed as virtue ethics – actually, one of the main directions in the last decades philosophical debate in the world. The book aims to awake the reader in the horizon of the „supreme value of the human” – that man is able to accomplish it, and at the same time he owes to realize it, by discovering and showing his very own „merit” / „àreté”; namely, his moral „excellence”. „Aretelogy” is an aporethical theory, having a function to sustain the knowledge and appropriation of a guidance-lesson in life, that can help human being to reveal and to attain the happiness of a good life worth to be lived.

Lucian Blaga: Philosophizing „under the Mystery’s Species”, Timpul Publishing House, Jassy, 2002

This volume is dedicated to the impressive Romanian philosopher and poet, who has imposed a systematical view in metaphisics of XXth century. Thus, it inscribes itself in the series of elaborated commentaries on Lucian Blaga’s philosophical work. Now, the endeavour of the exegete focuses on the nucleus heroic meaning that is given to the tragical human existence by cultivating the idea of the „singularity of man” which is that of being „toward mystery and revelation of mystery” through creation and historicity.

On Ethical in the Phenomenology of Life, Edizioni Eucos, Roma, 2007

By valuating on a high level the magnificent philosophical work of the great contemporary phenomenologist Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, the author tries to expose, in her very own hermeneutic vision, a little part of the „phenomenology of life” – one of the most spectacular directions in the post-Husserlian phenomenological movement in the world. The purpose is to disclose the ethical referential in Tymieniecka’s philosophy and to emphasize her contribution grounded on the concept of „creative human condition” – a pathway to be much more explored in the individual and common process of human values’ manifestation in existence.

In the Opening of the Romanian Moral Philosophizing, Didactic and Pedagogic Publishing House, Bucharest, 2008

The book represents a peculiar kind of spiritual challenge into the self-knowledge and self-understanding as regards the Romanian ethos. In terms of an integrator hermeneutics, there is displayed a referential topics of nowadays, that of balancing between ‘increased differentiating and more profound fitting in’. The author tries to disclose and to emphasize the signs and the meaning of the creator beingness in the horizon of the national morality, by identifying the values in which the Romanian character is enrooted; end, no less, the values that may enlighten the way of outrunning the present moral crisis. The perspective is one of the duty and the right to be activated for the development of the positive elements sustaining the Romanianity to inscribe itself, by dignity, in the world; through the exploration of an authentic culture made by elevated personalities belonging to the philosophizing territory.