id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7975 Adamantios Korais - Wikipedia .html text/html 4385 777 57 School Liberalism, Modern Greek Enlightenment Political philosophy, philology, history, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, Greek language, Greek Independence As classical scholar, Korais was repelled by the Byzantine influence on Greek society and was a fierce critic of the lack of education amongst the clergy and their subservience to the Ottoman Empire, although he conceded it was the Orthodox Church that preserved the national identity of Greeks. A typical man of the Enlightenment, Korais encouraged wealthy Greeks to open new libraries and schools throughout Greece. Korais believed that education would ensure not only the achievement of independence but also the establishment of a proper constitution for the new liberated Greek state. Away from contemporary politics, Korais did much to revive the idea of Greece with the creation of the Hellenic Library, devoted to new editions of some of the classic texts, starting with Homer in 1805. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7975.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7975.txt