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Adamantios Korais
Political exhortations to the Greeks
Zurich, Switzerland 1823
Adamantios Korai’s
Politische Ermahnungen an die Hellenen Ueberseßt
Uebersetzt von Johann Kaspar von Orelli, Professor am Zürcher’schen Gymnasium. Zürich, bei Ziegler und Söhnen. 1823.
Library of the Hellenic Parliament
THE PRE-EMINENT GREEK SCHOLAR
Adamantios Korais (1748-1833) published a number of pamphlets, in which he presented his views on Greek affairs, both before the Revolution (Fraternal Doctrine, 1798; War Song, 1801; Call to Arms, 1800; Memorandum on the Current State of Culture in Greece, 1803; What Greeks Should Do in the Present Circumstances, 1805); and after 1821 (Notes on the Provisional Government of Greece, 1822; On Greek Interests: A Dialogue Between Two Greeks, 1825; A Second Dialogue on Greek Interests, 1827; What Is in Liberated Greece’s Interests to Do in the Present Circumstances, 1830).
This is a bilingual book, published in Zurich in 1823, in Greek with a German translation, of Korais’ foreword to Αριστοτέλους πολιτικών τα σωζόμενα [The extant work of Aristotle’s Politics] (Paris 1821). A foreword by the German transla-
tor, Johan Kaspar von Orelli (February 13, 1823), and a letter by Polychronios Apostolou (Salona, November 23, 1821) to a certain Swiss are also included.
Korais’ Political Advice to the Greeks is a compar- ative discussion of different political systems. This is a part of his so-called Improvised Thoughts, where he presents his views on Greek education and language as an introduction to the volumi- nous collection of ancient texts that he published under the general title Hellenic Library. His fore- words to the ancient writers he edited were col- lected in a separate volume (1833 and 1842).
In his Political Advice, Korais essentially addresses his revolutionary fellow Greeks, underscoring the importance of unity for the Greek nation as a key condition for Europeans to embrace their demand for independence.
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