Peonidis, Filimon

Position: Professor
Office: 421δ New Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
Telephone: 2310.99.7376
Email: peonidis@edlit.auth.gr
Personal Website: https://auth.academia.edu/FilimonPeonidis
Full CV: Peonidis CV (.pdf)

Research Interests:

  • Normative and applied ethics
  • Democratic theory
  • Freedom of expression
  • History of political ideas

Selected Publications:

  1. Lying and Morality. Thessaloniki: Vanias, 1994. (In Greek)
  2. John Stuart Mill. Utilitarianism. Introduction, Translation and Commentary by Filimon Peonidis. Athens: Polis, 2002. (In Greek)
  3. Autonomy and Sympathy: A Post-Kantian Moral Image. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005.
  4. In Defense of the Right: Essays in Applied Philosophy. Athens: Ekkremes, 2007. (In Greek)
  5. Elements of Critical Argumentation. Thessaloniki: Ziti, 2014. (In Greek)
  6. Democracy as Popular Sovereignty. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013. [Improved and enlarged Greek edition 2018].
  7. (Co-authored with Nicos Giannakopoulos) Athenian Demagogues: Debunking an Antidemocratic Stereotype. Athens: Okto, 2018 (In Greek).
  8. Polyzoides, Anastasios. Texts on Democracy (1824-1825). Edited with an introduction by Filimon Peonidis and Elpida Vogli. Athens: Okto, 2011. (In Greek).
  9. Jeremy Bentham and the Greek Revolution. Scientific direction Konstantinos Papageorgiou. Introduction-Appendix Konstantinos Papageorgiou and Filimon Peonidis. Translation-Commentary Filimon Peonidis, Konstantinos Papageorgiou, Andreas Takis and Yiannis Tassopoulos. Athens: The Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy, 2012. (In Greek)
  10. Issues in Academic Ethics. Edited by Filimon Peonidis, Asterios-Evangelos Kechagias and Dimitris Tsimbouklis. Athens: Okto, 2015. (In Greek)
  11. Thomas Aquinas, Marsilius of Padova, Bartolus of Saxoferrato. Late Medieval Political Theory: An Anthology Edited with introductory essays by Eleni Tounta and Filimon Peonidis. Translated with commentary by Eleni Tounta. Thessaloniki: Κ.& Μ. Ant. Stamoulis, 2016. (In Greek)
  12. «On Two Anti-democratic Uses of Sortition», Democratic Theory: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3 (2016): 26-45.