Elias Vavouras, Lecturer, University of Western Macedonia
Elias Vavouras is a Doctor of Philosophy of the Department of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University Western Macedonia. He has taught philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, at The Open University of Cyprus, at the University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki, at the University of Jyväskylä and elsewhere. His research interests focus on the disciplines of Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Economics, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Modern and Contemporary Moral and Political Philosophy. Since 2010 he is the Editor of the scientific journal Philosophein (http://philosophein-periodiko.blogspot.gr/) and Editor of the international scientific journal Dia-noesis: A Journal of Philosophy (http://dianoesis-journal.blogspot.com/). He has published numerous articles in Greek and international scientific journals and has participated in international scientific conferences.
email: ivavouras@uowm.gr, ilvavouras@gmail.com
Tel: 6972438881
Books-Monographs
1. Elias Vavouras, Plato, Gorgias (philosophical monograph: Elias Vavouras, The right of the most powerful in Ancient Greek Thought "The philosophical origins of the idea", pp. 23-314, translation, philosophical analysis, commentary), Prf. T. P Valala, Zitros 2008.
2. Elias Vavouras, Plato, Politicus (Statesman) (philosophical monograph: Elias Vavouras, The Origins of Platonic Political Science "A philosophical interpretation of the Politicus", pp. 39-288, commentary), trnsl. Th. Mavropoulos, Prf. K. Zouraris, Zitros 2010.
3. Elias Vavouras, The "Political Man" in Ancient Greece: The philosophical origins of the political act (From Homer to Aristotle), Prf. P. Doikos, Zitros 2013.
4. Elias Vavouras, Thomas Hobbes, De Cive, [philosophical monograph: Elias Vavouras, The man-citizen in the philosophical project of Thomas Hobbes pp. 19-90, translation-commentary: Elias Vavouras-Eftychia Firipi], Prf. Aris Stylianou, Zitros 2015.
5. Elias Vavouras, "Epimeter: The political philosophy of Isocrates: Isocrates the predecessor of Machiavelli and modern political philosophy" pp. 381-521, in Isocrates, The Cypriot speeches, Zitros 2019.
6. Elias Vavouras, Democritus, Ethics - Politics (philosophical monograph: Elias Vavouras, Democritean Moral and Political Philosophy: atoms - nature – city, pp. 17-316), translation, commentary, Prf. Sotiria Triantari, Zitros 2020.
7. Elias Vavouras, Leo Strauss, What is Political Philosophy? - The three waves of Modernity, (philosophical monograph: Elias Vavouras, What is political philosophy? Natural Right as moral and political philosophy in Leo Strauss, pp. 177-270 - Spyros Makris, Leo Strauss, Theological-political problem, medieval dissent and the crisis of modernity), trnsl. Elias Vavouras - Vassilios Makripoulias - Nikos Tagoulis, Zitros 2021.
Selected articles in Greek and international peer-reviewed journals:
1. Elias Vavouras-Dimitris Kyritsis, "Tyranny and Education:" The political and moral classification of the concepts in the ancient city-state from the 5th to the 3rd BC. Century; a philosophical return to the ancient sources. ", Philosophy and Education, August 2008, 47-48 (2008), pp. 8-11.
12. Elias Vavouras, “The concept of liberty in the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: convergences and divergences in comparison to the classics”, SKEPSIS, 23, p. 394 - 404.
13. Elias Vavouras, "The concept of the natural slave in Aristotle and Nietzsche", Philosophein, Issue 9, pp. 51-68, January 2014. https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=D60DF1AF710FC282%21298
https://cogito.ucdc.ro/cogito_martie_2021.pdf
39. Elias Vavouras, “Machiavelli: Natural right and historicism”, POLIS, Volum IX, Nr. 3 (33), 2021, pp. 5-24 http://revistapolis.ro/.../revista/2021/Polis%20nr%2033.pdf).