Constitutional change in interwar Greece was prepared for by political figures who, overwhelmed by ongoing political and social crisis and strongly involved in intense political debates on the crisis of parliamentarianism, endorsed the disestablishment of the Second Hellenic Republic. This article focuses on conservative intellectuals influenced by German sociologists, such as Max and Alfred Weber, Italian and Spanish scholars such as Vilfredo Pareto and José Ortega Y Gasset, and neo-Kantian and neo-Hegelian philosophers and constitutional lawyers. Claiming to stand above politics, they argued restored nationalism was the only doctrine that could promote the fulfilment of the nation’s ‘mission’. These intellectuals argued democracy and class-based parties, especially the left, undermined the concept of parliamentarianism, weakened the ideal of democracy, and would lead the country to chaos. As a counterbalance, they promoted political ideas that supposedly benefited the state and Hellenism in general. They advocated for charismatic leadership, discussed implementation of ‘controlled democracy’, and proclaimed an idealistic millennialism, a modern Platonic republic of the ‘prime’, led by the ‘philosopher-king’.

两次世界大战之间希腊的宪法变革是由政治人物准备的，他们被持续的政治和社会危机所淹没，并积极参与关于议会制危机的激烈政治辩论，支持废除第二希腊共和国。本文重点关注受德国社会学家影响的保守派知识分子，如马克斯和阿尔弗雷德韦伯，意大利和西班牙学者，如维尔弗雷多帕累托和何塞奥尔特加加塞特，以及新康德和新黑格尔哲学家和宪法律师。他们声称站在政治之上，认为复辟的民族主义是唯一可以促进国家“使命”实现的学说。这些知识分子认为民主和基于阶级的政党，尤其是左翼政党，破坏了议会制的概念，削弱民主理想，导致国家走向混乱。作为一种平衡，他们提倡据称有利于国家和整个希腊化的政治思想。他们提倡魅力型领导，讨论“受控民主”的实施，并宣布理想主义的千禧年主义，即由“哲学王”领导的现代柏拉图式“总理”共和国。