Abstract

To Americans accustomed to thinking of Greece as the cradle of Western Civilization, the realization that modern Greece is a young nation with serious cultural, political, and economic identity problems comes only with difficulty. This little book is a celebration of the life and work of Evangelos P. Papanoutsos, a very productive and influential philosopher and educational reformer. Although, like every Greek intellectual, Papanoutsos is steeped in ancient culture, he is also emphatically a twentieth-century philosopher caught up in the Enlightenment tradition of Hume and Kant and occupied with moral philosophical critique of contemporary culture.