Constantin Noica

At Spiru Haret his math teacher was Dan Barbilian (pen name Ion Barbu, poet and mathematician).

Along his friends there, including Mircea Eliade, Mihail Polihroniade, and Haig Acterian, he later supported the fascist Iron Guard.

After attending courses in France between 1938 and 1939 on a French government scholarship, he returned to Bucharest where in 1940 he earned his doctor's degree in philosophy (thesis: Sketch on the history of How is it that there is anything new, published the same year).

According to historian Zigu Ornea, his allegiance to the fascist organisation continued after the Iron Guard was suppressed following their failed rebellion.

In his two-room apartment, located in Western Drumul Taberei, he held seminars on Hegel's, Plato's, and Kant's philosophy.

The model of scientific knowledge, which means transforming reality into formal and abstract concepts, is applied in judging the entire environment.

This kind of thinking is called by Noica "the logic of Ares", as it considers the individual a simple variable in the Whole.