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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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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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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…

“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.