GREECE - ORTHODOX - ENLIGHTENMENT AGAINST KORAI AND ECONOMOS

At the forefront of the research of this book are Adamantios Korais and Konstantinos Oikonomos the Economist, in whose thought and action the ambiguous reaction of Hellenism and Orthodoxy to the current of Enlightenment, which was entering during their time from the Western Europe, as a challenge and an opportunity at the same time. With a basic argument, that the liberation presupposed the enlightenment of the people and even that the "lights of Europe" are Greeks in exile, Korais recommended their repatriation, which would be a "METAKENOSIS*" "from the coffins of the aliens to the coffins of Greeks". The Steward saw the need to enlighten the Genus, but preferred Orthodoxy rather than the Western Enlightenment as a source of light...