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.
8. 8. Elias Vavouras, "The philosophical masks of N. Machiavelli: Natural right, freedom, democracy", pp. 37-192 in Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Trans. - Comments: Vasilios Makripoulias, Zitros 2023.
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. 2. Elias Vavouras-Dimitris Kyritsis, "How the young men must listen the
poems: Pedagogical, Moral and Political interpretation of a neglected
plutarchean text, Philologos 149,
(2011), pp. 397-407.
3. Εlias Vavouras-Dimitris Kyritsis, "The
conciseness of education in Aristotle: the relationship between moral virtue
and political action (Nic. Eth,
B’)", Dialogos, 1 (2011), pp. 39-54.
5. Elias Vavouras, "Isocrates: a
Machiavellian of the 4th BC. century. "Aspects of Isocratic Political Philosophy", Greek Philosophical Review, 28 (2011),
115-134.
6. Elias Vavouras, "History and
Life in Nietzsche's Philosophy", Philosophy
and Education, 55 (2010), 31-34.
11. Elias Vavouras, "Life: the
eternal project of human nature, From Callicles to Nietzsche” Philosophein, Issue 8, pp. 21-38, June 2013. https: // skydrive .live.com/redir? resid =
D60DF1AF710FC282! 266 & authkey =! ADVi2MjwBbmOmUM 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
15. Elias Vavouras, "Aspects of
political necessity in ancient Greece under the philosophical criticism of
Thomas Hobbes", article (June 2016) in the honorary volume of the University of Patras in honor of Professor
Augustos Bayonas, pp. 9-22.
16. Elias Vavouras, - Eftychia Filipi, “Is
Civilization a source of Unhappiness? The dialectical revival of the question
from Plato to Freud ", Substantia
Philosophica, Issue 1, February 2015, pp. 192-205.
17. Elias Vavouras, "Thucydidean,
Theoeides (Godlike), Synamfoteros", proceedings of the conference The Synamfoteron: Theology and Philosophy in
the State, collective volume, pp. 15-29, Armos 2015.
22. Elias Vavouras, "Is Democritus
a democratic thinker"?, Philosophein,
Issue 14, June 2016, pp. 17-34. https://1drv.ms/b/s!AoLCD3Gv8Q3WhF7qexhNlgphvv89 23. Elias Vavouras, "To benefit your friends, to harm your
enemies: The philosophical preconditions
of domestic and foreign policy in Democritus", Philosophein, Issue 15, January 2017, pp. 19-36. https://1drv.ms/b/s!AoLCD3Gv8Q3WhQ1QMc1Dk0ioyzU3 32. Elias Vavouras, "ἄρχον δὲ φύσει
καὶ ἀρχόμενον διὰ τὴν σωτηρίαν: Nature, dominance and submission in Aristotle
and Pythagoreans", proceedings of the International Conference "New trends in research for Aristotle",
2020, pp. 119-126. 33. Elias Vavouras, “The platonic proof
of the immortality of the soul with three arguments: a) the argument of
anamnesis, b) the argument of the opposites, c) the argument of similarity - Meno
80a-86c and Phaedo 70e-80e”, Dia-noesis:
A journal of philosophy, Issue 8, 2020, pp. 127-140. https://1drv.ms/b/s!AoLCD3Gv8Q3WhwU0QamjI320dkmm?e=alIaRi 37. Elias Vavouras-Dimitris Kyritsis, “Perceptions
and research on education inequalities: from ancient philosophical thought to
the contemporary sociological approaches”, Euromentor, Volume XII, No. 1 / March 2021, pp. 20-36. http://euromentor.ucdc.ro/EUROMENTORmarch2021.pdf 38. Elias Vavouras, “Natural right and
historicism: from Thucydides to Marx”, Cogito,
Vol.XIII, no.1 / March, 2021pp. 7-20.
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). 40. Elias Vavouras, "Modern Political Philosophy: From Machiavelli to Rousseau", Philosophein, Issue 25, January 2022, pp. 299-306.
42. Elias Vavouras, "Is there freedom in Machiavelli? The impasse of modernity in the face of classical thought", THEOLOGY 93, 1 (2022), pp. 165-186.
43. Elias Vavouras, "Is democracy possible in Machiavelli?", Philosophein, Issue 26, June 2022, pp. 7-24
44. Elias Vavouras,- Eftychia Phiripi, "Civilization, a source of unhappiness? The dialectical revival of questioning from Plato to Freud", in Aspects of Applied Science and Technology: Exploring the remarkable landscape of Technoscience, ed. Kostas Theologu - Eugenia Tzannini article, pp. 35-47, Hellinoekdotiki, December 2022.
45. Elias Vavouras, "Leo Strauss's Thucydides: from barbarism to greekness", Philosophein, Issue 27, January 2023, pp. 7-38.
46. Elias Vavouras, "Hobbes' hedonism front of classical hedonism and the free market's way out", Dia-noesis: A journal of philosophy, Issue 13 May 2022, pp. 85-114. https://doi.org/10.12681/dia.37784 47. Elias Vavouras, - Michael Theodosiadis, (2023). "Religion as a Means of Political Conformity and Obedience: From Critias to Thomas Hobbes." Religions. (Scopus, Q1), 14 (9): 1180. https://doi.org/10.3390%2Frel14091180
48. Elias Vavouras (2023). "Machiavelli's Ethics of Expansion and Empire." Conatus - Journal of Philosophy (Scopus, Q2), 8(2), 703–723. https://doi.org/10.12681/cjp.35110 50. Elias Vavouras - Spyros Ganas, "To be happy in every circumstance: The paradigm of the Stoic sage in the adverse waves of modernity", Philosophein, Issue 29, January 2023, pp. 7-34.
52. Elias Vavouras, "Machiavelli's
Sparta: The philosophical
structure of the Spartan constitution and its inherent
weakness", in Brill's Companion to the Spartan Tradition, ed. Ian Macgregor Morris, forthcoming volume 2024.
