Nicolas Piccolos et la philosophie néohellénique

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Roxane D. Argyropoulos

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A professor in the most eminent Greek educational institutions of his
time, Nicholas Piccolos played an important role in the revival of Modera
Greek éducation and culture and in the transmission of ideas from Western
Europe by translating Descartes, Rousseau and Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
intő Greek. A close friend of A. Koraes and the French Idéologues, Piccolos
shared their views about the humanities and philosophy. He also published
an important édition in French of Aristotle’s History of Animais. An upholder
of the tradition of the medicai school of Montpellier, Piccolos espoused a
world view in which the study of the humanities was broadened by philosophy.
Although his intellectual outlook was formed in France, Piccolos remained
close to the ideals of Ancient Greece, which he desired to see realised in Modern
Greece.

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