Gala Galaction – An Ethics in Development Management Based on Christianity and Socialist Ideology at the Beginning of the 20th Century. Social Realities and Theoretical Context

Abstract

The article includes the analysis of ethics useful in development management, which was proposed by Romanian theologian, writer, and journalist Gala Galaction at the beginning of the 20th century. Through the article I demonstrated that the set of his ideas on ethics represents an original creation that can put in a different light the dominant impression I had towards the philosophical systems put into circulation by theologians or thinkers of the Romanian Orthodox Church. I have also shown how the ethics proposed by Gala Galaction are consistent with views expressed later. We also analyzed the ethical ideas promoted by Gala Galaction from the perspective of economic-social progress and development management, including their connection to the realities in Romania and Eastern Europe at the time of their launch. It is surprising to note that many of the ethical themes raised by Gala Galaction at the beginning of the 20th century are still valid today internationally.

The ethics proposed by Gala Galaction includes the following areas: reflecting the problems of the Romanian society at the beginning of the twentieth century through the prism of Christian and socialist thought, hope for the emergence of a new world based on the values of the socialist doctrine of that time, improving the material situation of the Romanian peasants, recommendations of social ethics for the attention of the rich, including the elimination of the selfishness of the rich, the relationship between ideal and consistency, the responsibility of individuals, first of all intellectuals, towards major social problems, the correlation between ethics and social dynamics.