Vrailas - Armenis Petros (Corfu, 1812 - London, 1884)
"Phoenix Lodge number 1" Corfu

A multifaceted personality, philosopher, politician and diplomat. He began his studies at the Ionian Academy and continued his studies in law in Paris, where he received his doctorate. Alongside his legal studies, he studied philosophy at the University of Paris under the famous Professor Victor Cousin, founder of philosophical eclecticism. In 1835 Vralas returned to Corfu and became involved in public affairs. With other fellow citizens he founded the great“Reading Society of Corfu” with its famous library and its cultural activity, until today.

In 1848 he founded the political party of the Constitutionalists or Reformers. Its aim was to unite the Ionian Islands with Greece through “persuasion and diplomacy” and not by force against the occupying powers of the time. He publishes the newspaper“Patrice” in Greek-French to help his cause. In 1852 he became President of the Ionian Senate. Two years later he was appointed professor of philosophy at the Ionian Academy. After the union of the Ionian Islands with Greece, Vrailas represented Corfu in the Greek Parliament. He served for a short time as Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Koumoundouros government. In 1867 he was appointed ambassador to London, then to Petersburg and Paris. Then he represented Greece at the Berlin Congress (1880) with Th. In Greece, Greece was represented in Greece at the Berlin Council in 1880 with Th. Diligiannis.

Vralas did not have original philosophical rethinking but he manipulated and combined philosophical and theological positions from Christianity and Platonism. He was concerned with the philosophy of history, law and the active presence and omnipotence of God. He believed in the immortality of the soul and the innate moral values in man. His literary work was great.