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A Memorable Failure

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 Olavo de Carvalho 2 Comments

The Durban Conference was a farce and a trap. Its failure was the most logical, just, and healthy thing that…

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Interview

Olavo de Carvalho answers the questions of the Editors of Wydawnictwo Podziemne

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

WP: According to common perception, a revolution was initiated in Poland in 1989 with historical significance and global consequences. There is…

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Christmas meditation

December 29, 2020 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

If there is one obvious thing in the world, it is that Christianity is, in its origin, not a doctrine,…

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Learning to Write

July 15, 2020January 8, 2021 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

It is by reading that one learns how to write – that is the very type of synthetic formula which…

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Conference

The Health of Language and Social Disease

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

International Conference Planetary Articulation: The Life, Thought, and Influence of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy 1-4 June 2002 • Allerton Park Conference Center,…

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Study Before You Speak

June 25, 2020January 8, 2021 Olavo de Carvalho 3 Comments

The shortest way to the destruction of democracy is fostering criminality through culture and subsequently trying to control it by…

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What Does It Mean to Be a Socialist?

June 22, 2020January 8, 2021 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

Socialism has killed over 100 million dissidents and spread terror, misery, and famine over one quarter of the Earth. All…

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Essay

Philosophy and Self-Awareness

June 15, 2020January 8, 2021 Olavo de Carvalho 3 Comments

Philosophy, with Socrates, emerged as a critical analysis of collective knowledge in the light of the unity, integrity and self-transparency…

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Interview

Dr. Steve Turley

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

Dr. Steve Sturley interviews Mr. Olavo de Carvalho Embassy of Brazil, Washington D.C. August, 2019 "Steve Turley (PhD, Durham University)…

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Making Essential Information Available Again

June 15, 2020January 8, 2021 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

One of the essential items of the Gramscian menu that now regulates the Brazilian mental diet is information control, which…

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Weapons of Freedom

June 2, 2020January 8, 2021 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

The most obvious thing about the analysis of history and society is that when a situation changes considerably, you can…

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Blog

Forgiveness

May 22, 2020January 8, 2021 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

The following is a collection of sayings from Professor Olavo de Carvalho about forgiveness. “To forgive is always a demonstration…

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Conference

The Condition of Brazilian Higher Education

May 14, 2020 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

On July 23, 2013, Olavo de Carvalho delivered a lecture on the current condition of Brazilian Higher Education.Arlington, Virginia Leadership…

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Essay

[3/3] UNDER THE COMMAND OF A CORPSE

May 14, 2020 Olavo de Carvalho 1 Comment

Olavo de Carvalho explains why Liberation Theology is alive and well in Latin America. Olavo de Carvalho July 19, 2016…

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Essay

[2/3] UNDER THE COMMAND OF A CORPSE

May 11, 2020 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

Olavo de Carvalho explains why Liberation Theology is alive and well in Latin America. Olavo de Carvalho July 19, 2016…

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Friendship

“St. Thomas Aquinas defined friendship in the following terms: idem velle, et idem nolle, that is, your friend is the person who wants the same things you want and rejects the same things you reject. If you cannot find a group that identifies with your objectives and values, you will obviously be isolated among other people, who will be either strange or hostile to you. (…) Aristotle considered friendship to be the basis of a polity.  Friendship is not a “political” phenomenon in the sense that we currently understand politics; but nevertheless, if there were no human tendency to form groups united through friendship, through the  commonality of objectives and values, no political society would ever be possible. Friendship is also one of the pillars upon which our personality is built. If you do not find adequate friends, who share values with you, you will end up associating yourself with other groups, which will offer you support and friendship in exchange for your own corruption, your relinquishing your own values and making useless and abject sacrifices before the altar of a false friendship.”  — Olavo de Carvalho, Philosophy Online Course, Lecture 1.

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