Greek Philosophers

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 131. Not illustrated. Chapters: Hypatia, Nikos Kazantzakis, Panagiotis Kondylis, List of Ancient Greek Philosophers, Cornelius Castoriadis, Nicholas Kalliakis, Christos Yannaras, Adamantios Korais, Nicos Poulantzas, Athanasios Moulakis, Athanasius Parios, Nikolitsa Georgopoulou, Kostas Axelos, Neophytos Doukas, Plotino Rhodakanaty, Altheides, Ioannis Theodorakopoulos, Anthimos Gazis, Michail Papageorgiou. Excerpt: Panagiotis Kondylis (, Panajotis Kondylis, Panagiotes Kondyles) (17 August 1943 11 July 1998), was a Greek writer, translator and publications manager who principally wrote in German, in addition to translating most of his work into Greek. He can be placed in the tradition of thought best exemplified by Thucydides, Niccol Machiavelli and Max Weber. Other thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne, Hobbes, Spinoza, Montesquieu, La Mettrie, Kant, de Sade, Clausewitz, Marx, Nietzsche, Schmitt and Aron were amongst the important points of reference in his thinking, notwithstanding the significant differences he had with some of these writers. Kondylis claimed to be "scientific" in the sense of writing "descriptively" and "explanatorily" rather than "prescriptively" or "normatively." He called his theoretical outlook "descriptive decisionism" and produced a body of work that referred directly to primary sources in no less than 6 languages (Greek, Latin, German, French, Italian and English). He had no time for what he considered intellectual fashions and bombastic language used to camouflage logical inconsistencies and lack of first-hand knowledge of primary sources. His work sought to eliminate artificial academic boundaries between e.g. "philosophy," "anthropology," "economics," "history," "sociology" and "politics" by emphasising the interconnectedness of such disciplines from the point of view of "value-free" i.e. "po...