Biography

Evangelos A. Moutsopoulos
Evangelos A. Moutsopoulos was born in Athens in 1930.
He was a professor at the Aristotle University and the University of Athens, of which he was elected Rector in 1977.
He is a Member of the Academy of Athens since 1984. He has been a Visiting Professor at numerous foreign Universities and research centres of international prestige and is an Honorary or Corresponding Member of many national and international foreign Academies and Philosophical Societies.
Evangelos Moutsopoulos’ research in the fields of systematic philosophy and the history of philosophy led him to the formation and international enforcement of five new philosophical disciplines:
1. Philosophy of Weather (he is known internationally as the “philosopher of weather”),
2. the Philosophy of Art (in a renewed sense of the term),
3. of the Philosophy of Greek Culture (with the importance of the secondary hermeneutical evaluation of the Greek philosophy of art and institutions),
4. of the History of Modern Greek Philosophy
5. of Cosmopolitan Philosophy.
To the above should be added his also very important contribution to the Philosophy of Music, a contribution that is also fed by his activity in the field of Musicology.
He created the Corpus Philosophorum Graecorum Recentiorum (CPGR), which he included in the framework of his activities under the presidency of the Foundation for Research and Publications of Modern Greek Philosophy. He founded and has directed the international philosophical journal Diotima for more than 30 years, while the Academy of Athens entrusted him since 1984 with the supervision of the journal Philosophy, which operates as the Yearbook of the Centre for the Study of Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens.
From 1984 until June 2021 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Olympus Association – World Spiritual Centre. In 2019 the Association awarded him the Gold Medal for his exceptional participation in the events of Heptapolis.
Evangelos Moutsopoulos, author of philosophical works in 60 volumes and about 400 articles in the fields of Ontology, Evaluation, Aesthetics, Philosophy of History and History of Philosophy, he has been contributing creatively to the field of Philosophy and Culture for more than half a century.