Evi Psarrou

Department of Philosophy, University of Patras, Rion – Achaia, Greece

DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v4-i9-37

Google Scholar Download Pdf
Abstract

The present study aims to discuss the connection between the Modern Greek Enlightenment and the Greek Revolution. It reveals the decisive effect of this intellectual movement upon the Greek subjects of the Ottoman Empire supporting that the Greek Enlightenment contributed to the awakening of the Greeks who eventually revolted against the Ottomans establishing a new independent national state. Additionally this paper reveals the position of the Orthodox Church and its reaction towards the Enlightenment and moreover highlights certain actions taken by the Church against the Enlightenment thinkers. Finally, an attempt is made and to the reasons that led the Church to adopt this position against the Enlightenment movement and the Greek Revolution. This paper derives from an in-depth study of the bibliography relevant to the aforementioned issues.

KEYWORDS

Eastern Orthodox, Church Greek Enlightenment, Greek Revolution, Greek Independent State, Ottoman Empire, Patriarch of Constantinople.

REFERENCES

1) Cassirer, Ernst. The Philosophy of the Enlightenment. Translated by Fritz C. A. Koelln and James P. Pettegrove. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.

2) Demos, R., ‘The Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment (1750–1821)’, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 19, No. 4 (October 1958), 523–41;

3) Gourgouris, S., Dream Nation. Enlightenment, colonization and the institution of Modern Greece, Stanford University Press, 1996.

4) Kitromilides, P. M., ‘Orthodoxy and the West. Reformation to Enlightenment’, Cambridge History of Christianity: Vol. V: Eastern Christianity, ed. by Michael Angold, Cambridge, 2006, 187–209.

5) Kitromilides, P. M., Enlightement and Revolution: The Making of Modern Greece, Cambridge, MA and London 2013.

6) Kors, Alan, ed. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. 4 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

7) Mackridge, P., “The Greek-Intelligentsia 1780-1830: A Balkan Perspective” in Balkan Society in the Age of Greek Independence, ed. Richard Clogg, London, pp. 63-84.

8) Makrides, V., «The Enlightenment in the Greek Orthodox East: Appropriation, Dilemmas, Ambiguities», in Enlightenment and Religion in Orthodox Word, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2016.

9) Munck, T., The Enlightenment. A Comparative Social History 1721–1794, London: Arnold, 2000.

10) Nicholls, D., God and Government in an Age of Reason, London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

11) Runciman, St., The Great Church in captivity: a study of the patriarchate of Constantinople from the eve of the Turkish conquest to the Greek War of Independence, Cambridge, 1968.

12) Shaw, St., Between Old and New. The Ottoman Empire under Sultan Selim II, 1789-1807, Cambridge 1971.

13) Αποστολόπουλος, Δ., Οι Ιδεολογικοί Προσανατολισμοί του Πατριαρχείου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως μετά την Άλωση, εκδ. Ίδρυμα Γουλανδρή – Xορν, Αθήνα 1995.

14) Δημαράς, Κ.Θ., Νεοελληνικός Διαφωτισμός, Αθήνα, 2009.

15) Κιτρομηλίδης, Π. Μ., Νεοελληνικός Διαφωτισμός. Οι Πολιτικές και Κοινωνικές Ιδέες. μτφρ. Στέλλα Νικολούδη, Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, Αθήνα 2009.

16) Κιτρομηλίδης, Π.Μ., Γαλλική Επανάσταση και Νοτιοανατολική Ευρώπη, εκδ. Διάττων, Αθήνα 1999

17) Νούτσος, Π., Νεοελληνικός Διαφωτισμός. Τα όρια της διακινδύνευσης, εκδ. Ελληνικά Γράμματα, Αθήνα 2005.

18) Πιζάνιας, Π., (επιμ.) Η Ελληνική Επανάσταση του 1821. Ένα Ευρωπαϊκό Γεγονός, εκδ. Κέδρος, 2009.

VOlUME 04 ISSUE 09 SEPTEMBER 2021