By Cui Bailu, Yue Yitong and He Shaoqing from CNS Georgios Steiris is a Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He previously taught at the University of Peloponnese, the Hellenic Open University, and in Study Abroad Programs of the University of Connecticut and Boston University. He has been Visiting Professor at Jyväskylä University (Finland) and Visiting Fellow at Bogazici University (Turkey) and Macquarie University (Australia).
He has served as Secretary-General of the Greek Philosophical Society (2015-2016). Themed "Classical Civilizations and the Modern World", the first World Conference of Classics will be held in Beijing from Nov. 6 to 8, 2024.
As a invited scholar came from Greece, Georgios Steiris has long been dedicated to the history of philosophy from antiquity through the European Renaissance, and he teaches classics as well as Chinese philosophy at university. Recently, he accepted an exclusive interview with “W.E.
Talk” of China News Service. In his opinion, the texts by thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Confucius and Mencius serve as repositories of values that enrich our humanity—values essential to modern civilization, and modern technology cannot function effectively without the ethical foundation provided by classical civilization. Here are the excerpts of the interview: CNS: How did the Classics influence the development of European civilization? Did .
