Raphael Demos was Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, emeritus, at Harvard University and an authority on the work of the Greek philosopher Plato.
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Raphael Demos's father had been converted to evangelical Christianity by missionaries and had become an evangelical minister.
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Raphael Demos studied under Bertrand Russell, who was temporarily at Harvard, and Russell found Demos to be one of his best students and was impressed by his enthusiasm for philosophy which he found refreshing.
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Raphael Demos obtained his PhD in 1916 for a dissertation titled The Definition of Judgment.
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Raphael Demos was naturalized as an American citizen in 1921.
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Raphael Demos married Jean and they had a son, John Raphael Demos, who attended Harvard University and became a noted historian at Yale University, and a daughter, Penny, who attended Radcliffe College.
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In 1934, Raphael Demos lectured on Plato's social program, arguing that Fascism and Communism had their roots in his philosophy.
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Raphael Demos became Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity in 1945 in succession to William E Hocking and he was a member of the Doty committee which produced the report, General Education in a Free Society, completed the same year.
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Raphael Demos had been living in Athens with his wife since 1967, teaching on a university year in Athens course.
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Raphael Demos's papers relating to Aristotle are held in the archives of Harvard University.