Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory

Georgios Iliopoulos

Laboratory Teaching Staff

Dr. phil. Georgios Iliopoulos was born in Athens in 1965. He graduated from the Varvakeios Model School, Athens in 1983, he studied Philosophy, Theory of Education and Psychology at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki where he earned his degree with specialization in Philosophy in 1987, he obtained his Postgraduate Diploma in Philosophy from the same University in 1993, he held scholarships of the D.A.A.D. (German Academic Exchange Service) and I.K.Y. (Greek Scholarships Foundation) and he obtained his PhD. from the Freie Universität (Free University) Berlin in February 2002. He conducted research in Germany and taught at the University of Patras and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He worked for several years as a teacher at the Secondary Education Level in Greece and Germany and was for four years headmaster at schools in the Athens region. Since the spring of 2019 he is appointed as a Lecturer and Member of the Staff (Instructional and Lab Personnel) at the Sector (shortly at the Faculty) of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. 

His PhD-thesis was entitled: Ganzes und Teile des Politischen bei Aristoteles (The Whole and the Parts in the Aristotelian Political Philosophy) and has been published in Marburg, Germany in 2004. His publications list includes among others:

1. «griechische Antike», in: W. F. Haug, (ed.), Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, 4th vol., Hamburg 2001, col. 977-984
2. «Μesotes und Erfahrung in der aristotelischen Ethik», in: Philosophia, Philosophia, Yearbook of the Research Centre of Greek Philosophy at the Academy of Athens, 33^rd Year, 2003, pp. 194-204
3. «Zur Erziehung in der Αristotelischen Idealverfassung», in: Festschrift für Kostas E. Beys. Dem Rechtsdenker in Attischer Dialektik, Αthens 2003, pp. 571-585
4. «Einheit und Vielheit der ethischen Vortrefflichkeit bei Aristoteles», in: Philosophia, Yearbook of the Research Centre of Greek Philosophy at the Academy of Athens, 34th Year, 2004, pp. 199-209
5.  «Platonische und Kantische Ideen in Hegels Glauben und Wissen», in: Hegel-Jahrbuch, 2005, pp. 120-125
6. «Die Dialektik in Kants und Hegels Auseinandersetzung mit dem Skeptizismus», in: Hegel-Jahrbuch 2016, pp. 302-307
7. «Vergangenheitsbewältigung mit Blick auf die Zukunft: die Rezeption der griechischen Antike bei P. Kondylis und K. Psychopedis», in: Jannis Pissis, Dimitris Karydas (eds.), Deutschland und Griechenland im Spiegel der Philosophiegeschichte. Transfers im 20.Jahrhundert, Edition Romiosini / CeMoG, Freie Universität Berlin 2018, pp. 237-251. 

He has also translated into Modern Greek works of G.W.F. Hegel (Differenzschrift), H.-G. Gadamer (Der Anfang der Philosophie and Der Anfang des Wissens) and M. Heidegger (Phönomenologische Interpretationen zu Aristoteles and Nietzsche. Der Wille zur Macht als Kunst). He is currently working on a critical edition of Plato’s Sophistes along with a translation into Modern Greek as well as on a research project about the relationship between Hegel and the Modern Greek thinker Panajotis Kondylis.