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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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[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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[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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[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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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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[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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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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