ABSTRACT
The interplay between art, science and economics has always been a challenging issue. In this chapter, we set out to examine how these three concepts shaped the thought of Adamantios Koraes, one of the most prominent representatives of the Modern Greek Enlightenment. We will focus on Koraes’s comments on these three topics and on his stylistic and linguistic choices, i.e. the kind of words and terms he used in order to refer to his social environment and the particular social and political issues of his time. We are going to see how he managed to fruitfully bring together all these concepts and whether his intellectual and professional background played a role in the shaping of his thought. It hardly comes as a surprise that he talked about art, science and economics mostly in medical and economic terms, and more specifically, in terms of the therapeutic influence the aforementioned concepts had on Modern Greeks. Moreover, it seems that apart from the views Koraes had on art, science and economics, he developed a specialized vocabulary and terminology, drawn from his professional background as a merchant and as a doctor. Finally, given that this topic has not been extensively studied until now, this contribution is exploratory in nature, mapping some of the basic contours of Koraes’s thought and charting possible avenues for future research.
