Европа и дилемата на гръцкото съзнание
Europe and the Dilemma of Greek Conscience

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses some historical aspects of the dichotomy East-West (Orthodoxy-Enlightenment) in the formation of modern Greek identities. The notion of Europe as a model for emulation developed in the Greeks in the age of the Enlightenment and the strategies for the creation of this model remain the main problem before Greek political thought to this day. The author has made a historically sequential review of ideas on this matter expounded by Eugenios Bulgaris, Iosipos Moisiodax and Adamandios Korais. He has also outlined the trends of development in the 19th century (historical nationalism), underscoring the key figure and importance of Konstantinos Paprigopouros. In the dawn of the 21st century the author thinks that the problem of Orthodoxy-Enlightenment, Byzantium and the West in its contemporary forms, generating the specifics of Greek identity, should be interpreted as an expression of cultural pluralism in European space rather than one denying the European historical affiliation of Greece and the Orthodox world.

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