Philosophy Professor and Author Christos Yannaras Has Died at the Age of 89.
The news of his death was made public through a social media post by his son, Spyros Yannaras.
Who Was Christos Yannaras
Christos Yannaras (born Athens, April 10, 1935) was a professor of philosophy and an author. He studied theology at the University of Athens and philosophy at the University of Bonn and the Sorbonne in Paris.
He held a doctorate in philosophy from the School of Humanities at the Sorbonne and the Theological School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was also an honorary doctor of the University of Belgrade, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Seminary in New York, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Boston. He served as the editor of the journal Synoro, which published twelve issues from 1964 to 1967.
From 1982 to 2002, he was a full professor of philosophy at Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences in Athens, initially in the then unified Department of Political Science and International Studies and later in the Department of International and European Studies. He taught philosophical terminology and method, political philosophy, and cultural diplomacy. He also served as a visiting professor at the universities of Paris, Geneva, Lausanne, and Crete.
He displayed a rich literary work with themes related to the exploration of differences between Greek and Western European philosophy and the Orthodox Christian tradition. His book “The Freedom of Morality” is regarded as defining the core of what later came to be known as “neo-Orthodoxy” and has been characterized as “the May of ’68 in Orthodox theology and ethics.”
Many of his works have been translated into at least 10 European languages.
Christos Yannaras was a scholar of the German “Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung” Foundation and was an elected member of the Society of Greek Writers, as well as the International Academy of Humanities (Academie International des Sciences Humaines) (Brussels).
He intervened and continues to intervene in social and political current affairs through regular articles in the newspapers, To Vima, formerly for 13 years, and from 1993 to the present in Kathimerini, along with parallel television appearances.
With information from Wikipedia