Yannaras was born in
Athens. He studied
theology at the
University of Athens and philosophy at the
University of Bonn (Germany) and the
University of Paris (France). He received a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Theology at the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). He holds also a Ph.D of the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines at the
Sorbonne-University of Paris IV. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Paris (the Catholic Faculty), Geneva, Lausanne and Crete. He was Professor of Philosophy at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, from 1982 to 2002. He is an elected member of the Hellenic Authors' Society and International Academy of Human Sciences (Brussels).
The main volume of Yannaras' work represents a long course on study and research of the differences between the Greek and Western European philosophy and tradition, differences that are not limited at the level of theory only but also define a
praxis (mode of life).
Selected bibliography
In English
The Freedom of Morality, New York (SVS Press), 1984 (
ISBN0-88141-028-4)