Zachos, Constantinos

1. Entity type Person
2. Name in other language Ζάχος, Κωνσταντίνος (en)
3. Birth date 1958
4. Birth place Larissa, Greece
5. Gender Name Male
6. Biographical Data

   1. Born in Larissa in 1958, Constantinos Zachos studied Physics at the University of Athens and Theology at the University of Thessaloniki. After his studies in Physics, he turned his attention to explore the philosophical and theological meaning of the scientific understanding of the world. In his doctoral thesis he focused on the anthropological conditions of the ecological problem based on the work of St. Maximus the Confessor and the contemporary discussion about the problem. Then his interest shifted to the study of order in which are developed the mental faculties of man (such as consciousness, attention, memory, intentionality etc.). In this framework, he investigates the dynamics as well as the boundaries of the modern scientific approaches to human self (mind and affect) in relation to the anthropological richness and the ascetic experience of the Orthodox theology. He teaches Physics in public schools and he has written in Greek four books: The lost intimacy. The ecological crisis in the light of Saint Maximus Confessor’s thought (1998), The presence of the Soul: Intellect, Conscience and their logic, This world is too little for Man and The world as promise (2017).