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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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Essay

[1/3] Under the Command of a Corpse

May 11, 2020May 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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Article

It Was a Disaster

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

No historian, no well-informed reader can conceive the great literature of the first half of the 20th century without the…

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Essay

The René Guénon Enigma

May 7, 2020January 8, 2021 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

An author whose penname is “Sphinx” encloses an enigma and a subtle threat in his writings: any reader who is…

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[3/3] Sunrise by F.W. Murnau (1927): Movies and Metaphysics

May 4, 2020May 6, 2020 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

Olavo de Carvalho January 30, 1997 Translation by Jules Lapprand Access to knowledge of a metaphysical order must first go…

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Article

China at Walmart

May 3, 2020January 8, 2021 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

To find out to what extent Brazilian intelligentzia is in the dark about what goes on in the world, just…

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[2/3] Sunrise by F.W. Murnau (1927): Movies and Metaphysics

April 30, 2020May 6, 2020 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

Olavo de CarvalhoJanuary 30, 1997Translation by Jules Lapprand We get a foretaste of this irony in the scene with the…

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[1/3] Sunrise by F.W. Murnau (1927): Movies and Metaphysics

April 26, 2020May 6, 2020 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

Olavo de Carvalho January 30th, 1997 Translation by Jules Lapprand Sunrise, directed by F.W. Murnau (1927) and based on a…

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Blog

Three Reminders About China

April 23, 2020January 8, 2021 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

The situation is rather horrible and depressing, but it is not a complex or difficult one to be understood. It…

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Article

The Shoes of the Stupid Fisherman

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

Do you remember Morris West’s international bestseller, “The Shoes of the Fisherman," which was later turned into a film with…

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Interview

Olavo de Carvalho on Communism in Latin America

April 11, 2020 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

Alex Newman interviews Olavo de Carvalho The New American, March 15, 2010 "Olavo de Carvalho, an author and philosopher, is…

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Harvest Time

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

After the downfall of the USSR became an accomplished fact, the Forum of São Paulo has been, since 1990, the…

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Books & Courses

An Introduction To The Online Philosophy Seminar

March 30, 2020April 11, 2020 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

An Introduction To The Online Philosophy Seminar Olavo de Carvalho • March 2008 I am going to provide you with…

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Conference

Brazilian Left: From Victory To Defeat To Victory Again

March 28, 2020March 30, 2020 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

Olavo de CarvalhoA Brief Presentation Delivered At The Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Washington D.C.,September 15, 2005 For fifteen years the…

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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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