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112<br />

Remembrance in Time<br />

Odobleja entitled,, Diversity and Unity in Cybernetics" the participants chanted: ”in<br />

Romania, you have a golden man who deserves a statue <strong>of</strong> gold". The Romanian<br />

representative returns to the country and he told to doctor Ştefan Odobleja who was on<br />

his death bed : „Sir, I won, they chanted 40 years <strong>of</strong> cybernetics”. „Thank you, thank you,<br />

but for me, it is too late”.<br />

Two tears rolled down his cheeks afflicted by disease. On the morning <strong>of</strong> September<br />

4, 1978, at 4 o’clock in the morning, he left us, pointing to the ceiling following the<br />

agreement made with me, that is if he saw a different world, perhaps the world he thought<br />

it’d be more just than this one.<br />

After the 1978 Congress in Amsterdam, John Rose came to Romania and awarded<br />

Nicolae Ceausescu the „Norbert Wiener - 30 years" for scientific merit in cybernetics 9 .<br />

But nothing could stop the work Dr. Ştefan Odobleja assertion that surprised by its<br />

increasingly modernism in time. Odobleja's work is always current and soars into the sky<br />

where the place <strong>of</strong> great discoveries <strong>of</strong> the most intelligent human mind and illuminates<br />

our path to the future is.<br />

POST-SCRIPTUM<br />

About the social-economic moral (Fragments from “The Consonant Psychology”<br />

(pages 710-712)<br />

Ștefan Odobleja, the author <strong>of</strong> “The Consonant Psychology”, published in Paris in<br />

1938 (Vol. I) and in 1939 (Vol. II), in the chapter „The Social-Economic Moral” makes<br />

an analyses <strong>of</strong> the characteristics <strong>of</strong> liberal and social thoughts, underlining the difference<br />

between the two concepts:<br />

The liberal school The social school<br />

Individualist<br />

The human being is everything<br />

Free action<br />

Free competition<br />

Natural evolution<br />

Naturalistic therapy<br />

Orthodoxy, traditionalism<br />

Inequity between needs and values <strong>of</strong><br />

rights and obligations<br />

Based on selfishness<br />

Based on love and hatred<br />

Excites ,exhales, dynamism<br />

Attractive work<br />

Ambition, activity<br />

Priority in qualities<br />

Priority in choosing the best<br />

Individual property can always be<br />

inherited<br />

Collective, cosmopolite<br />

Society is everything<br />

Constraints, leadership<br />

Rules, solidarity<br />

Artificial evolution<br />

Interference therapy<br />

Revolutionary, reforms<br />

Equity (needs, values, rights, obligations)<br />

Based on altruism<br />

Based on love<br />

Inhibits, stops, passive<br />

Hard work, imposed<br />

Indifference, neglectance<br />

The quantity comes first<br />

Priority <strong>of</strong> the majority<br />

Public functions for all citizens<br />

Social property<br />

Dr. Ştefan Odobleja makes some observations at the analysis <strong>of</strong> the two schools:

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