Literature – Olavo de Carvalho

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…

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)…

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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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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