How the Western intellect and the aftermath of the French revolution sow the seed for the uprising of the Greeks. Adamantios Korais, the Greek rulers of Moldovlachia and the Phanariotes… The awakening of the Greeks for their freedom begins.

The emeritus professor of Political Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Mr. Periklis Vallianos talks with Aris Portosalte about the old continent in the years of the first and second industrial revolutions that introduced humanity to the modern era and about the awakening of the Greeks.

In the broadcast of Sunday, July 28, Mr. Vallianos and Aris Portosalte started their discussion with one of the revolutions that develops on the “back” of the great revolutions, the American, French and later the Greek, and they analyze the Industrial revolution where it is a a new chapter in the telling of European History.

The first period of the Industrial Revolution extends from 1750 to 1830 and is a radical change in the life of humanity as the living conditions for the great majority of people of that time changed dramatically.

It is based on the mechanical discoveries where essentially people could now produce the work they want without the factor of human toil and human work that was required until that time.

The most basic condition for the development of the Industrial revolution, however, was free economic activity, while the beginning of the so-called consumer society is created where products suddenly become widely consumed and are no longer considered “luxury” products.

Another radical change of the Industrial revolution, for that time, is the abolition of the Feudal system as the worker stops being “tied to the land” and the respective landowner and conquers his freedom.

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