Greek philosophers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Chapters: Nikos Kazantzakis, Panagiotis Kondylis, Cornelius Castoriadis, List of ancient Greek philosophers, Dimitris Liantinis, Nicholas Kalliakis, Adamantios Korais, Nicos Poulantzas, Christos Yannaras, Athanasios Moulakis, Kostas Axelos, Athanasios Parios, Neophytos Doukas, Plotino Rhodakanaty, Altheides, Ioannis Theodorakopoulos, Dimitris Dimitrakos, Anthimos Gazis, Michail Papageorgiou. Excerpt: Panagiotis Kondylis (¿a¿a¿¿¿t¿¿ ¿¿¿d¿¿¿¿, 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, Niccolò Machiavelli and Max Weber. Kondylis produced a body of work that referred directly to primary sources in no less than six languages (Greek, Latin, German, French, Italian and English), and had little regard for what he considered intellectual fashions and bombastic language used to camouflage logical inconsistencies and lack of first-hand knowledge of primary sources. Panagiotis Kondylis's only published picture. During his lifetime he refused to publish any of his photographs. When asked for a photograph for a German academic yearbook, he chose to write a small note instead: "I cannot understand the relationship between a writer's appearance and the value of his theoretical work." This photograph was released publicly by his family posthumously. Born in 1943 in the small community of Drouba (¿¿¿¿ßa) in Olympia, Greece, where the Kondylis' family house is still standing today, he moved with his father, who was a military officer, at the age of six to Kifisia, Athens, where he attended school. Kondylis studied classical philology and philosophy at the University of Athens (at which time he was drawn to Marxism), as well as philosophy, medieval and modern history and political science at the Universities of Frankfurt and Heidelberg. During his postgraduate studies at Heidelberg he earned his Ph.D. (under the supervision of Dieter Henrich) with the 700-page study of the origins of post-Kantian German idealism, including the early years of Hegel, Schelling and Hölderlin: Die Entstehung der Dialektik (The Genesis of Dialectics), which supported views considered innovative and provocative at the time, including illuminating the pre-