Romanians’ History, Identity and Tradition: Legal Perspective

Abstract

The ethnic identity of Romanians, its unity cannot be identified outside the investigation of a complex, deep, creative social life, of the trinomial language, culture, religion, to which are added specific elements of civilization, within this human community. According to historicism, a principle of dialectics, the phenomena of reality must be seen in the process of their development and their disappearance, in an indissoluble connection with the concrete historical conditions that generated them. Historicism is opposed to the tendencies of substituting the concrete historical study of social reality by abstract schemes, as well as to the historicism that overbid the genetic, diachronic approach in explaining the social phenomenon, neglecting the systemic and synchronic, as non-essential factors but with permanent action in determining development.